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•Next to Washinston he stands the idol of all good men." 

IiStter of Joseph Story to Bichard Peters, 
October 29, 1831. 



"John Marshall Day." 



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OHN Marshall Day," 



SERIES OF LETTERS AND ENDORSEMENTS IN ANSWER TO 
CIRCULAR ADVOCATING THE CELEBRATION 
OF "JOHN MARSHALL DAY," 
FEBRUARY 4, 1901. 



Presented to the American Bar Association for its Consideration 

BY 

ADOLPH MOSES, 

OF THE CHICAGO BAR. 



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4 4 ^H^ARSHALL'S judgments upon the national Constitution are among 

4.II*/ jjjg most original and massive works of the human reason. They are 

almost as important as the texts of the Constitution which they expound. Some 

of them were, indeed, criticised at the time; but they have immovably established 

themselves as right in the general judgment of lawyers, public men, and the 

people. * * * They have become primal lights, shining with the steadfast 

fidelity of the North Star or the Southern Cross, for the guidance of the 

inquirer after American constitutional law. 

"For nearly fifty years after his death the nation failed to show in any 

overt manner an adequate appreciation of the simplicity, worth and dignity of 

his character, and of his unequalled judicial fitness and qualities; at all events, 

it failed to display any [)ublic memorial of gratitude for those labors which not 

only BO greatly contributed to make the Supreme Bench illustrious, but which 

enabled the country to attain unto its present stature without a strain upon the 

Constitution. The bar and the nation have, though tardily, shown themselves 

worthy of the inheritance of such a name and of such labors, by erecting a 

statute to his memory, executed by the gifted son of his loved and eminent 

ass(5ciate, to the end that the chief executive, the legislator, the suitor, the 

lawver. the judge, and the citizen, may in all coming time, as they go to or 

return from the Capital, be reminded of the thoughtful though severely plain 

features, the calm majesty, the placid courage, the lofty character, the inestimable 

public services of him whose uncontested and unenvied title is that of the Great 

Ciiief-Justice." 

Judge John F. Dillon, 
in ^'The Laws and Jurisprudence of England 
and America,'' a Series of lectures dcliven'd 
before Yale University, 1891-1892. 



4 ^*ff\TS genius, his leanuiig, ami his virtues have conferred an imperishable 

"*' gloi'V on his country, whose liberties he fought to secure, and whose 

institutions he labored to perpetuate. He was a patriot and a statesman of 

spotless integrity and consummato wisdom. The science of jurisprudence will 

forever acknowledge him as one of its greatest benefactors. The Constitution of 

the United States owes as much to him as to any single mind, for the foundations 

iin which it rests and the expositions by which it is t(.) be maintained; but above 

all he was the ornament of human nature itself, in the beautiful illustrations 

which his life constantly ])resented of its most attractive graces and most elevated 

attributes." 

Associate Justice Story, in Reply to 
Resolutions of Respect by the Supreme 
Court Bar at Washington, Presented 
to the Court by Henry Clay, Jan- 
uary VJ, 1836. 



MOHN MARSHALL DAY.' 



FEBRUARY 4, 1901, 



THE FOLLOWING CIRCULAR WAS FORWARDED TO THE 

MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION AND 

TO MANY MEMBERS OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



"JOHN MARSHALL, DAY," 

February 4, 1901. 

Proposition fo^rmulated and submitted by 

Mr. Adolph Moses of the Chicago Bar 

and adopted by the Illinois State 

Bar Association, July 7, 1899. 



On February i. 1801, John Marshall took 
his seat in the Supreme Court of the United 
States as the third Chief Justice, on a com- 
mission signed by President John Adams, 
dated January 31st, 1801. He sat in the 
Court thirty-four years. 

The 4th of February, 1901, will fall on 
Monday, and I propose, as a member of the 
bar, that the legal profession of the United 
States celebrate Monday, February 4th, 1901, 
as "John Marshall Day," in order to com- 
memorate the great event which gave to the 
people of the United States the powerful 
mind of Marshall and harmony and strength 
to the great instrument, the Constitutioa of 
the United States. 

This will likely be the first centennial day 
in the 20th century, and if the suggestion 
shall be adopted, the occasion will be the 
peacefully determined expression of the 
bench and bar of the United States, that 
constitutional government shall remain with 
us in its full unimpaired strength, in the 20th 
century and through the centuries to come. 

The celebration of this day by the bench 
and bar of the United States will bring to- 
gether the greatest assemblage of lawyers 
and judges which the world has ever wit- 
nessed and the dedication of the day will 
mark an event, unexampled in the history of 
English-speaking lawyers and judges. 

It is proposed that the judicial depart- 
ment of the governments, both State and 
National, shall be the principal actor in 
this national celebration, and it is also sug- 
gested that the executive and legislative 
branches of the government shall partici- 
pate. 



John Marshall, for a brief time, was Secre- 
tary of State under President Adams and 
was one of the envoys sent to France. He 
was also a member of Congress. Hence it is 
most fitting that the executive as well as the 
legislative branches of the government shall 
participate. 

It is proposed that an exalted meeting 
take place in the Supreme Court Rooms 
of the United States at Washington, to which 
the President, the Vice-PresideoQt, the Speak- 
er of the House, the members of the cabinet 
and other dignitaries shall be invited, on 
which occasion, by direction of the Chief 
Justice, the judicial life and character ot 
Chief Justice Marshall shall be the principal 
theme of the orator. 

It is further proposed that a like celebra- 
tion take place in the joint houses of Con- 
gress. 

It is further proposed that on said day 
of celebration, every court house In the 
United States shall be closed to secular busi- 
ness and that suitable ceremonies take place 
commemorative of the great national event. 

The law schools in the United States, the 
universities and faculties of professors 
may also consider this day as their own so 
that constitutional knowledge and better- 
ment of republican government may be ad- 
vanced. 

It is also proposed that on that day mem- 
bers of the bar shall be designated by boards 
of education to address the scholars of the 
public schools for the purpose of making 
the name of John Marshall a household world 
in the land. 

In this manner the orators of the day will 
emphasize the great influence which Chief 
Justice Marshall has exercised upon the 
people and government of the United States, 
and the event must necessarily bring great 
and lasting results in its train. 

The powerful aid of the secular and legal 
press towards this movement will not be 
undervalued. 



'JOHN MARSHALL DAY/' 



In order to give effect to this idea, it is 
proposed to present a suitable memorial to 
the American Bar Association at its next 
August Session at Buffalo, accompanied with 
proper resolutions to the effect that the 
American Bar Association appoint a special 
committee representing all the States and 
Territories, to take charge of this subject 
and work out a plan of celebration for sub- 
mission to the organized body of the bench 
and bar and other public bodies in the Unit- 
ed States. 

It is also proposed that such committee 
appoint an editor or a number of editors to 
prepare a commemorative volume which, 
besides biographical data of the Chief Jus- 
tice, will largely deal with his constitutional 
opinions, in order that their influence may 
be widened throughout the non-professional 
world. 

It is proposed to interest in this matter 
eminent judges, statesmen and lawyers who 



may be induced to endorse the idea, herein 
suggested, before it is finally submitted for 
action to the American Bar Association. 

These are merely the outlines of the 
thought which has lately come to me and 
which may be extended in all reasonable di- 
rections. The proposition is in my judgment 
a feasible one and will be a profound appeal 
to the intelligence and patriotism of the 
bench and bar of the United States, to whom 
these outlines are respectfully submitted by 
an ardent admirer of Chief Justice Marshall 
and the far-reaching work which he did for 
the people of the United States. 



(On motion of General John C. Black, of the 
Chicago Kar, the above proposition was unanimously 
adopted by the Illinois State Bar Association with in- 
structions to its delegates to the American Bar Associa- 
tion to present it at its next session in Buffalo, N, Y., 
August 28, 29, and^30, 1899,) 



THE FOLLOWING RESPONSES ARE HEREWITH PRESENTED 

FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE 

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION. 



(From Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Ambassador 
to England.) 

London, August 3, 1S99. 

Your most interesting letter of July 13th 
in regard to a proposed celebration of John 
Marshall's memory in 1901, and asking me 
to speak for the American Bar Association 
in regard to it. was duly received. It is true 
that I am still the nominal President of that 
association. But at this distance I do not 
feel justified in speaking and am unwilling to 
pass an opinion upon the feasibility of your 
scheme for the celebration of the memory 
of that great jurist, which ought never to be 
allowed to grow dim. 

It seems to me that it you desire to enlist 
the sympathy and support of the American 
Bar Association, you should attend its an- 
nual meeting and present it there. 
Yours most truly, 

JOSEPH H. CHOATE. 



(From C. P. Manderson. Vice-President Am. 
Bar Ass'n.) 
I have your favor of the 12th inst. and 
note with interest and pleasure the action 
of the Illinois Bar Association on the prop- 
osition tor the celebration of "John Mar- 
shall Day." I find myself fully in accord 
with your views upon this subject, and I 
thank you for calling my attention to it. The 



unveiling of the statue of John Marshall 
some years ago at the National Capitol was 
an occasion of great interest and the wonder 
to me is that the idea of celebrating a day, 
that should be devoted, not only to the mem- 
ory of this great jurist, but to inculcate re- 
spect for law and due consideration for the 
Courts, has not occurred to some one long 
ago. I certainly will make some reference to 
this movement in my address to the Ameri- 
can Bar Association in August and promise 
myself the pleasure of meeting you at that 
time. CHARLES F. MANDERSON. 



(From Charles Claflin Allen, Member of Ex- 
ecutive Committee of Amer. Bar Ass'n, 

St. Louis.) 
Your letter of the 15th inst. is received. 
Your idea of having some celebration by the 
bench and bar of "John Marshall Day" is 
an excellent suggestion. 

CHAS. CLAFLIN ALLEN. 

* * * 

(From Francis Rawle, Treasurer of the Am. 
Bar Ass'n.) 
I heartily approve of your proposal to cel- 
ebrate in a conspicuous manner the one hun- 
dredth anniversary of the day upon which 
Chief Justice Marshall took his seat on the 
Supreme Bench of the United States. I be- 



'JOHN MAESHALL DAY." 



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lieve this a duty which we owe to him for 
his great services to the country; and we 
•owe it to ourselves to express our gratitude 
for all that he did for us. I am, etc., 

FRANCIS RAWLE. 



(From Hon. W. W. Howe.) 
Yours of the 15th has just reached me in 
New York. I beg to reply that I feel much 
interested in the proposition to have a "John 
Marshall Day," and will take pleasure in 
discussing the subject at Buffalo. 

W. W. HOWE. 



(From Attorney General John W. Griggs.) 
I am in receipt of your letter relative to the 
proposed celebration of the centennial of the 
advent of Chief Justice Marshall to the Su- 
preme Court bench, on February 4, 1901. . 

While I think this event is one which can 
properly be commemorated and celebrated, 
yet I doubt very much whether it is possible 
to make Marshall the subject of popular 
worship in the manner that is customary for 
military heroes and popular statesmen. It 
seems to me that it would be better to con- 
fine the project to the Bench and Bar, whose 
appreciation of the subject would be appro- 
priate and thorough, rather than to attempt 
to extend it to people who do not under- 
stand, and who never will understand except 
in a general way, the value of his services. 
JOHN W. GRIGGS. 



(From Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State, 
Washington.) 
I have received your letter of the 31st of 
July. I regret that my many occupations 
here will prevent my being of any assistance 
to you in your plan of celebrating the cen- 
tennial of John Marshall's appointment to 
the Supreme Bench. But I take pleasure in 
expressing to you my hearty sympathy with 
this, and every effort, to keep green in the 
public memory the career of the greatest of 
all American jurists. That such a man, su- 
perlatively great, both in character and in 
abilities, should have arisen precisely at the 
time when he was most needed, and should 
have come to the place where, of all others. 
he could be of most use to his own and all 
succeeding ages, affords the strongest proof 
of the providential care that watches over 
this nation. JOHN HAY. 



(From Adlai E. Stevenson, Ex Vice-Pres. of 
U. S.) 
Bloomington, Illinois. 
Your letter comes duly to hand. I endorse 
most earnestly the action taken by the Illi- 
nois Bar Association looking to the celebra- 



tion by the legal profession throughout the 
United States, of February 4th, 1901. 

The profession will honor itself by honor- 
ing the memory of the Great Chief Justice. 
It will indeed be well, on the very threshold 
of the 20th century, to celebrate in the man- 
ner you have indicated, the centennial of the 
induction of John Marshall into his great 
office. ' . 'I 

You deserve the thanks of the profession 
for having inaugurated so timely a move- 
ment. ADLAI E. STEVENSON. 



(From Justice Brewer, U. S. Supreme Court, 
addressed to Hon. C. F. Manderson.) 
Elysee Palace Hotel, 

Avenue Des Champs Elysees, 

Paris, July 29th, 1S99. 
A letter from Chicago compels this line. — ■ 
I endorse fully the "John Marshall Day." 
Many words would add nothing to thi.s. 

DAVID J. BREWER. 



(P''rom Hon. H. B. Brown, Associate Justice 

of the Supreme Court of the United 

States, Washington.) 

In reply to your letter of the 10th inst. I 
would say that I think your proposition for 
the commemoration of the hundredth anni- 
versary of Chief Justice Marshall's elevation 
to the Supreme Bench is a most befitting 
one. 

His services to the country during the 
formative period of our government, though 
well understood by the legal profession have 
never been appreciated at their full value by 
the great mass of the people, and it is emi- 
nently proper that this occasion should be 
seized upon to call their attention to the fact 
that we probably owe to him the preserva- 
tion of the Union during the first half of the 
present century, when doctrines now thor- 
oughly exploded threatened a dissolution. 
H. B. BROWN. 



(From the Lord Chancellor of England, to 
Hon. C. F. Manderson.) 
4 Ennismore Gardens, S. W., 10-8-99. 
Dear Sir: 

I very readily comply with your request to 
write a letter approving the celebration on 
February 4th, 1901. of the centennial anni- 
versary of the day when John Marshall, 
third Chief Justice of the United States, took 
his seat at Washington. It would be impos- 
sible within the limits of an ordinary let- 
ter to deal adequately with his history as a 
statesman and advocate, but I will borrow 
a phrase from one of your countrymen in 
speaking of him when he said: "It is princi- 
pally on his character as a magistrate pre- 
siding over the highest tribunal of the na- 
tion that his fame must rest and there let 



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'JOHN MARSHALL DAY." 



It rest, for the foundations are deep and 
strong and the superstructure fitted for Im- 
mortality." 

It is true to say that he had studied dili- 
gently our English jurisprudence and no 
English lawyer would willingly admit that 
he had not studied Chief Justice Marshall's 
judgments, and arguments when at the bar. 
Imperfect as are the reports of these latter, 
and specially in the great case of Ware v. 
Hylton, they sufficiently disclose what a 
keen and accurate intellect, what a power- 
ful and lucid style distinguished your great 
Chief .Justice. 

During the fourteen years that I have oc- 
cupied the position of a jvidge and during 
the six years during which I was a law offi- 
cer for the Crown. I have had frequent oc- 
casion to have recourse to his recorded wis- 
dom and not infrequently to be guided by 
principles laid down by him. 

Believe me, 
Dear Sir, 

Very truly jours. 

HALSBURY. 
Lord Chancellor of England. 



It seems to me in every respect a most 
praiseworthy undertaking; one which the 
bench and bar of the United States will join 
in making a success. 

I need hardly dwell on the claims of John 
Marshall, whether as soldier, statesman or 
Judge. History has done that most fully. 
But while such a tribute as that which you 
propose can do comparatively little for his 
memory, it can hardly fail to subserve a 
high and permanent use in placing before 
those who have given themselves to legal 
studies in our country, one of the highest 
and noblest ideals which could be presented 
to them. 

It was with this very purpose of present- 
ing him as an inspiring personage to young 
men engaged in the study of the law. that I 
some time since placed a copy of his portrait 
painted for the Philadelphia Bar, in com- 
pany with several others of the most distin- 
guished lawyers who have rendered great 
services to mankind, in the Law Library of 
Cornell University. 

From this you will see that I appreciate 
and honor this work in which you are now 
engaged. AND, D. WHITE. 



(From Lord Russell, Chief Justice of Eng- 
land, addressed to Hon. C. F. Manderson.) 

Hotel Campbell, 45, 47 Avenue Friedland, 
Paris, 2Sth July, 1S99. 

The enclosures, which reach me from 
Chicago, will explain how I come to address 
you. In answer, I desire to say that I shall 
be glad to join in paying honor to your great 
Chief Justice Marshall on 4th February, 1901 
(should I be alive and well), or on any other 
day. RUSSELL OF KILLOWEN. 



(From Frederick Pollock, Editor, Quarterly 
Law Review. ) 
London, Eng.. Lincoln's Inn. 
No English-speaking lawyer who has paid 
any attention to the Constitution of the 
United States or the jurisprudence of its Su- 
preme Court can doubt the propriety of cele- 
brating John Marshall's memory. But I 
think it would be presumptuous for an Eng- 
lish lawyer to commit himself to any opin- 
ion about the best mode of doing so. and I 
must respectfully request to be taken as ex- 
pressing none besides a general confidence 
that the judgment of the American Bar As- 
sociation will be worthy of the dignity of 
the subject and the profession. ^ 

FREDERICK POLLOCK. 



(From Andrew D. White, U. S. Ambassador 
to Germany.) 

Homburg v d Hoehe. 
Referring to your letter of July 13th, I am 
greatly interested to hear of your proposal 
for the celebration of "John Marshall Day." 



(From W. L. Wilson, Ex-Sec'y of Interior.) 
Lexington, Va. 

I am in receipt of your letter enclosing 
propositions submitted by you to the Illi- 
nois Bar Association, and adopted by that 
association, advocating the celebration of 
"John Marshall Day" February 4th. 1901. I 
am sure this suggestion will meet a favor- 
able reception from the Bar of the United 
States, and from none more warmly than 
from the Bar of Virginia; and not from the 
Bar alone, but from all intelligent citizens 
who understand the value of the immense 
contribution which John Marshall made to 
the establishment of constitutional liberty in 
this country. 

It is my present expectation to attend the 
meeting of the American Bar Association^ 
and if present. I shall help to secure its fa- 
vorable action upon this proposal. 

W. L. WILSON. 



(From Senator Lindsay of Kentucky.) 
Your letter, with the enclosed circular, has. 
been received. My admiration for the learn- 
ing and ability of Chief Justice Marshall is 
equal to that of any one, and I shall be glad 
to see his memory honored as you propose 
to honor it. The character of the address 
I shall deliver to the American Bar Associa- 
tion precludes me from complying with your 
request, by alluding in it to the subject-mat- 
ter of your communication. Under different 
circumstances, it would afford me great 
pleasure to contribute in any way to honor- 
ing the memory of the great Chief Justice. 
WILLIAM LINDSAY. 



•JOHN MARHALL DAY.' 



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(From Senator CuUoni. of Illinois.) 
Your favor of the 19th inst. has been re- 
ceived and noted. I regard your suggestion 
of a proper observance of the One Hundredth 
Anniversary of the day on which John Mar- 
shall became Chief Justice of the United 
States, as eminently fitting. He was the 
greatest judicial expounder of the United 
States constitution and. in my belief, such a 
celebration as you indicate would not only 
'be a merited recognition of his great services 
to his country, but would in these times be a 
great service in calling attention to the im- 
portance of adhering closely to the constitu- 
tion, the bulwark of our liberties. 

S. M. CULLOM. 



(From William Wirt Henry.) 

Richmond. Va. 
Sickness prevented my reply to your com- 
munication in reference to John Marshall. 
I shall gladly join in doing honor to his 
memory. My admiration for him is inherited 
from my father and also from my grand- 
father, Patrick Henry, who was his warm 
personal friend and who materially aided in 
his election to Congress, where his great 
powers caused his advancement first to the 
Cabinet, and next to the Supreme Court, He 
came to the Court at a critical time for the 
Federal Government, as the theories of Jef- 
ferson and Madison threatened to make it a 
loose confederacy. Taking it as a con- 
cessum, that the U. S. Constitution is su- 
preme within its sphere, and interpreting its 
language according to its plain meaning, he 
demonstrated with inexorable logic its great 
powers and directed the history of the 
United States. With a life as pure as his 
powers were great, he will for all time be 
honored as "The Great Chief Justice." 

WM. WIRT HENRY. 



accepted by the American Bar Association, 
and that they will be approved by the people 
of the United States. 

HENRY WADE ROGERS. 



I From Hampton L. Carson. Philadelphia, 

Pa.) 
Your proposition for the celebration of 
"John Marshall Day" is a suggestion so 
original and striking that I am sure that it 
will meet with the enthusiastic approval of 
judges and lawyers everywhere. It can be 
made the occasion for the most notable le- 
gal Congress that the nation has ever seen, 
and 1 hope that you will receive the hearty 
support of the profession in every part of 
the country. HAMPTON L. CARSON. 



(From D. H. Chamberlain.) 

West Brookfield, Mass. 

The project of a "John Marshall Day," on 
the centennial anniversary of his advent as 
Chief Justice of the United States meets my 
hearty approval. 

Too much honor can never be done to his 
name and memory. If such a "Day" shall 
serve to call us as a nation back to our old- 
time, or aforetime, reverence for the Consti- 
tution, characterized with amazing ignorance 
and effrontery in recent days as "obsolete," 
and "not worth considering," the day will 
be a noble tribute to Marshall. 

D. H. CHAMBERLAIN. 



(From U. M. Rose.) 

Little Rock. Ark. 
Your letter was duly received. It will af- 
ford me pleasure to do anything in my power 
to aid in the movement that you mention. 

U. M. ROSE. 



(From Hon. Henry Wade Rogers, President 
Northwestern University. Evanston, 111.) 
I endorse very heartily the idea you have 
suggested that February 4. 1901. be ob- 
served by the legal profession of the United 
States as "John Marshall Day." The great 
Chief Justice of the United States is worthy 
of the recognition proposed. It was a most 
fortunate thing that this man was called to 
preside over the Supreme Court at a time 
when that Court was to determine the char- 
acter of the government then recently estab- 
lished. Marshall's powerful intellect dom- 
inated the Court. The constitutional ques- 
tions that came before the Court during the 
time he presided over it were of the utmost 
importance, and were so wisely decided as to 
command at this time the admiration and 
gratitude of all our countrymen. 

I certainly hope and believe that the sug- 
gestions you have mad« in this matter will be 



(From Robert Mather. Chicago.) 
I take pleasure in expressing my sympa- 
thy with your plan for the celebration of 
"John Marshall Day," and in congratulating 
you upon being the first to put the project 
on foot. In view of the general recognition 
of the great services rendered by Marshall 
in the upbuilding of the nation, it is strange, 
indeed, that a day has not heretofore been 
set apart to his memory. He ought always 
to be remembered and honored as one of the 
founders of the Republic. To me it does not 
seem too broad a claim to make for him that 
the Constitution, as it is known and under- 
stood to-day. is as much the product of his 
labors as of those of the men who framed 
the historic instrument. They moulded the 
form of a nation: he breathed into that form 
the spirit that gave the nation strength to 
live and power to grow. His work is an 



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JOHN MARSHALL DAY." 



enduring part of ovir national history, and 
it is peculiarly fitting tliat, on the centen- 
nial of his dedication to the service of the 
country, his great figure should be brought 
prominently before the public. 

I shall not be able to attend the coming 
meeting of the American Bar Association, 
but I hope and believe that your suggestion 
will meet with the approval of that body. 
ROBERT MATHER. 



(From Roger Foster^ New York.) 
Your suggestion for the celebration of a 
day in honor of John Marshall, I consider 
excellent; and I hope that the profession 
throughout the country will unite in its sup- 
port. R. FOSTER. 



(From Spencer Clinton, Pres. of Buffalo Bar 
Association.) 
I have youa's of the 1.5th inst., with enclos- 
ures relative to the proposed John Marshall 
Memorial day. The idea is a very good one, 
and I trust it will receive the endorsement 
of the meeting here. The letter and papers 
have been sent to Mr. Wilson S. Bissell, 
Chairman of the Committee of Arrange- 
ments, as I expect to be away when the 
meeting is held. SPENCER CLINTON. 



(From Jackson Guy, Richmond. Va.1 
Your circular letter containing the paper 
introduced by you on the 7th instant in the 
Illinois State Bar Association and adopted 
by that Association, relative to setting on 
foot a movement to constitute on February 
4th, 1901, a centennial celebration of the 
elevation of John Marshall as Chief Justice 
of the United States, has been duly received 
and read with great interest. 

I am sure that this motion made by our 
sister State, Illinois, will meet with a cor- 
dial second in Virginia, the home of Mar- 
shall, where his memory is cherished as one 
of her most honored sons. I cannot too 
highly commend the proposition, and would 
like to give you any assistance in any way 
practicable towards fulfilling the undertak- 
ing. 

Our State Bar Association meets on the 
first proximo at the Va. Hot Springs. I 
should be delighted if you could attend, and 
would do so, and set forth this enterprise 
before our bar on that occasion. I am sure 
that you would elicit great interest and its 
co-operation. If you cannot come and would 
like me to do so, I will take pleasure in pre- 
senting the paper to our Association as hav- 
ing been adopted by yours, and getting them 
to endorse it or adopt it or do whatsoever 
you would like in the premises. 

I enclose you a copy of the program of 
our meeting, and as the chairman of our 



Executive Committee take pleasure in ex- 
tending to you an invitation to attend our 
session on that occasion. 

JACKSON GUY. 



(From a Descendant of Chief Justice Mar- 
shall, Louisville, Ky.) 
A friend has just sent to me your pro- 
posal to celebrate "John Marshall Day" and 
I most earnestly hope your plan will meet 
with success. At my grandmother's knee I 
was taught to love my great grandfather 
and told of the sweetness of his character. 
She never spoke of his greatness — as an 
aunt said to me, "She knew I would hear 
that from others." From my childhood days 
I collected everything I could about him and 
in recent years have published several arti- 
cles from these notes in the Boston Law- 
yers' Magazine, "The Green Bag," notably, 
"John Marshall, as Son, Husband, Brother 
& Friend," in December, 1896, Among my 
most valued possessions are a lock of his 
hair cut after his death in Philadelphia, by 
my grandfather, his eldest son. Several of 
his books and letters from and to him — one 
a letter to my father written a few months 
before his death on my father's eleventh 
birthday. 

Again wishing you success, 

(Mrs.) SALLIE E. MARSHALL HARDY. 

Should your idea be adopted everything I 
have is at the service of any orator or ora- 
tors who may be chosen to speak February 
4, 1901. 



(From another descendant of Chief Justice 
Marshall, Louisville, Ky.) 
In answer to the circular letter received 
by me, which was sent out through your in- 
strumentality, in reference to the celebra- 
tion of the one hundredth anniversary of 
John Marshall's elevation to the Supreme 
Court of the United States, and his life and 
work, I heartily endorse your idea, and sin- 
cerely hope it will be carried out. As a 
great-grandson of John Marshall, I wish to 
thank you for your thoughtfulness and ex- 
remain, 

BURWELL KEITH MARSHALL. 



(From Chief Justice Cassoday of the 'Wis- 
consin Supreme Court.) 
I cheerfully comply with the request con- 
tained in your letter of the 10th instant to 
give my opinion as to the propriety of cele- 
brating the one hundredth anniversary of 
John Marshall's accession to the office of 
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
I'nited States. I have so fully expressed my 
views in respect to that eminent Federal 
jurist, in the lecture to which you refer, 
that you may well assume that I most 
heartily endorse the movement; and I hope 



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it may prove to be aljundantly successful. 
You are entitled to much credit for the 
Siand conception and especially for decided 
action. The tendency to unduly exalt and 
glorify those who have rendered heroic or 
patriotic services, in battle, or in statesman- 
ship, or from the rostrum, may be conceded; 
hut there is no clanger of unmerited praise 
l)eing bestowed upon those who have, in the 
quiet of judicial chambers, correctly solved 
great controversies, affecting the rights of 
persons and property and government. Vn- 
doubtedly there were judges living during 
his time, with more extensive learning in 
the domain of the common law and equity 
jurisprudence, but none with more accurate 
conceptions of the general scope, purpose 
and significance of the powers granted, lim- 
ited, permitted, prohibited and reserved by 
our national constitution. A letter received 
from that very learned author and equity 
jurist. Sir Nathaniel Lindley, the present 
Master of the Rolls of Great Britain, eon- 
tains this statement: "I know little or noth- 
ing of Marshall's life, though I value his 
great judgments very highly. I always look 
upon him and Kent as two of the greatest 
judges of whom I know anything." Chan- 
cellor Kent lived during the formative pe- 
riod of jurisprudence in the State of New 
York; and as he was a very industrious and 
learned man, he naturally devoted himself, 
with all the energy of his nature, not only 
to the mastery of the English common law 
and equity jurisprudence, but also to the 
civil law. This being so, his judicial opin- 
ions are well calculated to impress the mind 
of an able English equity jurist and author, 
like Mr. Lindley; and, I presume it would 
be generally conceded, that in the fields 
mentioned. Chancellor Kent was superior to 
.John Marshall. But, in my judgment, on 
questions of American constitutional law, 
the divergence is still greater in favor of 
Marshall. As evidence of this, it is only 
necessary to cite the respective parts taken 
by them in the celebrated case of Gibbons 
V. Ogden. In that case Ogden, the owner 
of steamboats, filed a bill in equity against 
Gibbons, in the Court of Chancery presided 
over by Chancellor Kent, to restrain the lat- 
ter from navigating any waters within the 
jurisdiction of New York by boats propelled 
by fire or steam, on the ground that Fulton 
and Livingston, under whom Ogden claimed, 
had the exclusive right to such navigation 
until 1S3S, by virtue of certain acts of the 
legislature of New York, Gibbons answered, 
admitting the acts of the legislature and the 
transfers to Ogden, but denied the validity 
of the enactments. Upon the hearing. Chan- 
cellor Kent held the acts of the legislature 
to be valid and made the injunction perpe- 
tual. Ogden V. Gibbons, 4 John. Ch. 150. 
That judgment was afl^rmed in the Supreme 
Court of Judicature for the correction of er- 
rors in New York. Gibbons v. Ogden 17 



John. 488. From thence the case was taken, 
by writ of error to the Supreme Court of the 
United States and was there reversed, on the 
ground that such acts of the legislature of 
New York were repugnant to the commer- 
cial clause of the constitution of the United 
States and therefore void. Gibbons v. Og- 
den, 9 Wheaton, 1. The able and exhaustive 
opinion of Marshall, C. J. (pages 186-222), 
backed by the sanction of the unanimous 
court, left no room for doubt among those 
who were willing to give effect to the Fed- 
eral constitution. Had the opinion of Chan- 
cellor Kent in that case become a law of 
this country, inter-state and international 
commerce would have been at the mercy of 
the respective State legislatures. Had Con- 
gress interposed, on the ground that such 
assumed authority of the respective States 
was only concurrent, the controversy would 
have been transferred to the caucus, to the 
political conventions and to popular elec- 
tions, and the result would have been end- 
less confusion and strife, if not bloody war. 
Thirteen years after that decision, during 
which time four of the justices making it 
had passed from the Court and their places 
had been supplied by new men, an attempt 
was made to overturn that decision. Mayor, 
etc., of New York v. Miln, 11 Pet. 102, in 
wiiich four of the seven members of the 
Court wrote opinions. But Mr. Justice 
Wayne, who was a member of the Court 
when the last case mentioned was decided, 
has left on record a statement tO' the effect 
that four members of the Court were of the 
opinion, that according to the constitution 
and the decisions of the Court in Gibbons v. 
Ogden and Brown v. Maryland, "the power 
in Congress to regulate commerce was ex- 
clusive," and that only "three of them 
thought otherwise." Passenger Cases, 7 How. 
431, in which each of the nine members of 
the Court wrote opinions. In a later case, 
Mr. Justice Miller, speaking for the Court, 
limits the decision in each of the last two 
cases mentioned, and said, that the opinion 
of Chief Justice Marshall in Gibbons v. Og- 
den, "has become the accepted canon of con- 
struction of this (commercial) clause of the 
constitution, as far as it extends," Hender- 
son V. Mayor, etc., 92 U. S. 270. In a still 
later case, Mr. Justice Field, speaking for 
the Court, said, that his opinion in Gibbons 
V. Ogden, "is recognized as one of the ablest 
of the great Chief Justice then presiding," 
although several of his expressions and some 
of his reasoning went beyond the questions 
decided. County of Mobile v. Kimball. 102 
U. S. 699. In a still later case, Mr, Justice 
Lamar, speaking for the majority of the 
Court, paraphrased a passage in the opinion 
of Marshall, C. J., in Gibbons v. Ogden, su- 
pra, w^iich he characterized as "that great 
opinion" which has been "almost uniformly 
adhered to." Kidd v. Pearson, 128 U. S. 16. 
In the still later case of Leisy v. Hardin, 135 



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JOHN MARSHALL DAY. 



U. S. 100, in an opinion by Fuller, C. J., 
Gibbons v, Ogden and Brown v. Maryland, 
supra, are expressly sanctioned, and the con- 
flicting opinions in The License Cases, 5 
How. 504 (in which there were six), express- 
ly overruled. Pages 115-118. When we re- 
member that Gibbons v. Ogden was the first 
case under the interstate commerce clause 
o( the constitution which ever reached that 
Court, and that Brown v. Maryland was the 
second, and that a large per cent, of the 
numerous cases since decided in that Court 
under that clause have been by a divided 
Court, and that several which have thus 
been decided have subsequently been ex- 
pressly overruled, and that a large per cent, 
of the cases under that clause decided in the 
State Courts have been reversed, it is a 
most remarkable fact that the opinions of 
the great Chief Justice in those two cases 
have thus stood the test of time. Numerous 
other examples might be given. In the field 
of dispassionate analytical reasoning, in the 
enforcement of the several provisions of the 
constitution of the United States, John Mar- 
shall stands out as the most exalted Ameri- 
can. As he did what he could to make the 
name of Washington immortal, so may the 
American bench and bar do what they can 
to make the fame of John Marshall perma- 
nent for the lasting benefit of this republic. 
JOHN B. CASSODAY. 



(From Hon. Charles B. Love, Chief Justice 
of the Supreme Court of Delaware, 
Wilmington. Del.) 
The proposed "John Marshall Day," as 
outlined in your circular, meets my hearty 
approval. Liberty regulated by law is for- 
mulated and crystallized in the opinions of 
John Marshall, who manifestly stands at the 
head of the world's great jurists. The study 
of his life and labors in e.xplaining, harmo- 
nizing and strengthening our constitutional 
fabric, cannot fail to elevate every branch 
of thoughtful constitutional government 
workers. CHAS. B. LOVE. 



(From Hon. John A. Peters, of the Supreme 
Judicial Court of Maine, Bangor. Me.) 
Your proposition for the celebration of 
"John Marshall Day" will no doubt be re- 
ceived with satisfaction everywhere in Am- 
erica. I have no doubt that Washington was 
the only man on this continent who could 
make our Revolutionary War successful and 
that Marshall was almost solely instru- 
mental in securing to the nation a correct 
constitutional government after our inde- 
pendence was won. The two names are as 
illustrious as any in the world, if not more 
so; each name furnishing light and luster 
as "morn risen on midnoon." It is enough 
to produce a shudder to contemplate what 
this country would have been at this period 



had Marshall's views of constitutional gov- 
ernment been defeated by his judicial and 
political contemporaries. 

JOHN A. PETERS. 



(From J. R. Tyson, Associate Justice Su- 
preme Court of Alabama.) 
I am in receipt of your circular con- 
taining proposition looking to the cele- 
bration of Feb. 4. 1901 as "John Marshall 
Day " by the Bench and Bar of this country. 
The proposition is the product of a beau- 
tiful sentiment, and its consummation 
would not only be a befitting tribute to the 
greatness of Judge Marshall, but of the ut- 
most value to the American people. I fully 
concur in your plans. Your formulation and 
submission of them, in my opinion, entitle 
vou to the gratitude of the entire people. 
J. R. TYSON, 



( P''rom Hon. James A. Pearce, Judge of the 
Maryland Court of Appeals, Chester- 
town, Md.) 

Vour circular letter proposing the celebra- 
tion of February 4th, 1901, as "John Mar- 
shall Day," has been received, and I cor- 
dially approve the movement as appropriate 
and well timed. This country has produced 
many men who have graven their names 
high upon the roll of fame as statesmen 
and jurists, but Marshall has left a deeper 
and more profound impression upon its in- 
stitutions than any of his contemporaries or 
successors. He brought to the great work 
committed to him an original and massive 
intellect, and a moral simplicity and courage 
in absolute harmony with the unexplored 
and unequalled scope of the majestic tri- 
bunal over which he presided so long and 
without which we may well believe it could 
never have attained the exalted estimate in 
which it is held throughout the civilized 
world. As Judge Dillon has said: "His 
judgments have become primal lights, shin- 
ing with the steadfast fidelity of the North 
Star or the Southern Cross for the guidance 
of the inquirer after American Constitu- 
tional Law," and Lord Chief Justice Cock- 
burn, speaking of "the august reckoning and 
accounting between nations, returning light 
for light and mind tor mind. " says: "The 
judgments and dicta of a Marshall or a Story 
are as familiar to us as those of a Mansfield 
or an EUenborough." 

Neither the bar nor the country has yet 
paid adequate tribute to his unrivalled judi- 
cial character and his inestimable public 
services, and the plan you propose for the 
celebration of the centennial of his entrance 
into the Supreme Court is well conceived to 
make his name, as it should be, a house- 
hold word in the land. 

JAMES A. PEARCE. 



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(From Charles V. Bardeen. Associate Justite 
Supreme Court. Wisconsin.) 
I yield to no one in my respect and ven- 
eration for Chief Justice Marshall. The plan 
of celebrating his entry into the judicial life 
of the nation ought to meet with distinct 
approval from every lawyer familiar with 
the great works he accomplished. I trust 
your efforts in that direction will meet with 
the success they deserve. 

CHAS. V. BARDEEN. 



(From Geo. M. Harrison, Assoc. Justice of 
the Supreme Court of Appeals of Vir- 
ginia, Staunton, Va.) 
Your proposition to celebrate February 
4th. 1901, as "John Marshall Day," must 
commend itself to every member of the Am- 
erican Bar. As a Virginian. I could not do 
otherwise than approve the movement and 
feel a deep interest in its success. 

GEORGE M. HARRISON. 



(.From H. C. McWhorter. Associate Justice 
of Supreme Court of West Virginia. 
Charleston, W. Va.) 
A happy thought. What could be more 
fitting than that the legal profession should 
appropriately celebrate the one hundredth 
anniversary of the elevation to the highest 
judicial position in the country, of the great 
legal luminary, John Marshall, whose de- 
cisions have added such luster, strength and 
dignity to American Jurisprudence? 

I most heartily commend the suggestion. 
H. C. McWHORTER. 



(From Chief Justice James H. Cartwright. 
Illinois Supreme Court.) 

The thought of celebrating Monday, Feb- 
ruary 4. 1901, as "John Marshall Day," with 
ceremonies suitable to the occasion is a most 
fortunate one. and the people as well as the 
legal profession of the United States are in- 
debted to you for conceiving it and formu- 
lating a plan for such celebration. I hope 
that the idea may be successfullv carried 
out. JAMES H. CARTWRIGHT. 



(From J. B. Winslow, Assoc. Justice of Su- 
preme Court of Wisconsin.) 
Surely nothing could be more appropriate 
than a general celebration by bench, bar 
and people of the centennial anniversary of 
Chief Justice Marshall's elevation to the Su- 
preme Bench. Your efforts to bring about 
such a celebration have my most cordial ap- 
proval. J. B. WINSLOW. 



(From Charles N. Potter. Chief Justice Su- 
preme Court of Wyoming.) 
Having read with much interest your pro- 
posal with reference to the celebration of 
"John Marshall Day," I wish to say that the 
plan has my earnest approval. It has been 
splendidly conceived, and I hope will be 
grandly executed. 

CHARLES N. POTTER. 



(From James G. Jenkins, U. S. Circuit Court 
of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, Milwau- 
kee, Wis.) 
I cordially concur in your proposal for a 
celebration of the centennial anniversary of 
the date when the great Chief Justice John 
Marshall took his seat in the Supreme Court 
of the United States. Whatever I can do in 
furthering your desire and that of the Illi- 
nois State Bar Association in that respect 
will most cheerfully be done. It is pre-em- 
inently fitting that the bench and the bar 
of the United States should commemorate 
an event which had so great an influence 
upon the interpretation of the constitution 
of the LTnited States in marking the bounda- 
ries between the different departments of 
government and in construing the rights of 
each. He presided in that Court during what 
may be termed the formative period of our 
constitution, and its construction became 
the duty of that Court during his term of 
office to a greater extent than at any other 
time. How well he performed his work. Uow 
well he marked and cemented the founda- 
tions of government, needs no encomium for 
the bench or the bar to understand it; but 
they of all others should unite in so cele- 
brating the event that his name and fame, 
and more than that, the principles which he 
aided to settle and which underlie constitu- 
tion and laws, should be perpetuated among 
the people at large. I sincerely hope that 
the American Bar Association will view 
your proposal with unanimous approbation 
and will aid to make the event a signal suc- 
cess throughout the entire Union. 

JAMES G. JENKINS. 



(From Chief Justice Campbell of Colorado 
Supreme Court.) 
Your proposition for the celebration of 
"John Marshall Day" February 4th. 1901, 
submitted to the Illinois State Bar Associa- 
tion, and by that body adopted, is one that 
commends itself not only to- the bench and 
bar of this country, but to every lover of 
constitutional history, and every one inter- 
ested in the perpetuity of constitutional gov- 
ernment. It meets with my approval, and I 
trust that the American Bar Association at 
its coming meeting will give the movement 
the impetus of its great influence. 

JOHN CAMPBELL. 



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"JOHN MAKSHALL DAY." 



(From Hon. William H. Seaman. U. S. Dis- 
trict Court. Eastern District ot 
Wisconsin, Milwaukee.) 
The action of the Illinois State Bar Asso- 
ciation starting the movement for celebra- 
tion of "John Marshall Day." is timely and 
well directed, and I am sure there will be 
earnest co-operation by the bench and bar 
throughout the country. Count on me for 
any aid within my ability. 

WM. H. SEAMAN. 



(From Hon. Addison Brown. U. S. District 

Judge for the Southern District of 

New York, New York.) 

I approve of the within and regard such a 

celebration as certain to exert an important 

influence for good, not only upon the bench 

and bar, but upon the public sentiment of 

the country. ADDISON BROWN. 



(From Hon. J. B. Moore, Associate Justice 
of the Supreme Court of Michigan, 
Lansing.) 
Few men have done so great service to the 
American Republic as John Marshall. It is 
fitting that on the one hundredth anniver- 
sary of his taking a place upon the United 
States Supreme Court, some recognition 
should be shown of the value of his work. 
Your plan seems feasible and has my hearty 
approval. J. B. MOORE. 



stitutional expounders can but result irr 
great good, by stimulating a more general 
and studious inquiry into the principles of 
government, a knowledge of which is so 
needful for the promotion and advancement 
of the nation. I earnestly hope the Ameri- 
can Bar Association will take such action 
as is suggested in your proposition. 

T. F. PALMER. 
* * * 

(From C. H. Hanford, U. S. District Judge, 
Seattle, Washington.) 

I wish to be counted among those favor- 
ing the proposed celebration of "John Mar- 
shall Day." I consider that our country is 
to be congratulated upon the fact that the 
principles of government which the founders 
of the republic, inspired by wisdom more 
than human, gave to us in the form of a 
written constitution, have not been, through, 
ignorance and partisan bigotry misconstrued, 
obliterated or nullified. We should be thank- 
ful that a man of great intellect and will 
power, and a true patriot, was at the right 
time placed in the position where he could 
expound anij enforce the principles of our 
national constitution with the result that we 
have to-day a nation to be proud ot, and not 
a mere alliance of States, jealous of each 
other and always quarreling and in a condi- 
tion of turmoil. 

I hope that the celebration may prove to 
be a success worthy of the great city in 
which the moviement for it originated. 

C. H. HANFORD. 



(From Selden P. Spencer, Judge of the Cir- 
cuit Court. St. Louis.) 
I very cordially approve of the "John 
Marshall Day" February 4th, 1901. and as 
one interested in the progress of American 
jurisprudence am correspondingly grateful 
for the initiative you have taken in the mat- 
ter. If I can be of any .service to you at 
the American Bar Association, the Buffalo 
meeting of which I expect to have the pleas- 
ure of attending. I shall be glad to help 
you. SELDEN P. SPENCER. 



(From W. H. Gabbert, Justice Supreme 
Court of Colorado.) 

I heartily endorse the proposition for the 
celebration of "John Marshall Day." Febru- 
ary 4, 1901. W. H. GABBERT. 



(From Judge Truman F. Palmer. Monticello, 
Ind.) 
Permit me, as an individual member of 
the American Bar Association, to express 
hearty approval of your proposition for the 
celebration of "John Marshall Day." Such 
recognition of the life, work, and influence, 
of the greatest of American judges and con- 



(F'rom Vice-President for California for 
American Bar Association, Los Angeles.) 
The conception of observing the cente- 
nary of the elevation of the great Marshall 
to the Supreme Court of the United States, 
formulated by you, and fittingly approved 
by the Bar Association of Illinois, is one 
that appeals to all American lawyers, and 
is worthy of execution by the American Bar 
Association. 

Liberty circumscribed by law, based upon 
common consent, is the greatest achieve- 
ment of man. The noblest, and let us hope, 
the most enduring expression of such law, 
is found in our Federal Constitution. To 
voice and apply the principles of that char- 
ter from the sovereign people in the spirit 
in which they were conceived and adopted 
was a great privilege, and one of those upon 
whom it was early conferred, and who ful- 
filled the trust to the utmost and set guide 
posts upon the highway of constitutional 
progress for all time, was John Marshall. 

Therefore, to him in an eminent degree, 
the bench and bar of the United States are 
indebted, and the fitting opportunity to do 
honor to his memory that you suggest, 
should not be allowed to pass without ob- 
servance. JAS. A. GIBSON. 



MOHN MARSHALL DAY. 



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(From R. E. Twitchell, Pres. New Mexico 
Bar Association, L,as Vegas, N. M.) 
Your esteemed favor with enclosure rela- 
tive to proposition for a proper celebration 
of "John Marshall Day" has been received. 
I mo.st heartily endorse the ideas contained 
in the circular, particularly that wherein 
addresses to the school children of the Re- 
public on the day mentioned is proposed. 
There has been too little patriotism and 
obedience to the laws taught in our public 
schools. These principles of the old Spartan 
masters properly inculcated in the youth of 
this country can be productive of much good 
for the future. Tlie opportunities presented 
by the celebration mentioned as well as the 
character of addresses which would be made 
on such an occasion can do much to that 
end. R. E. TWITCHELL. 



(From the Vice-President for Oregon of Am- 
erican Bar Association, Portland. Ore.) 

I am in receipt of your circular relating to 
the proposed celebration of John Marshall 
Day, February 4, 1901, and I cordially, ap- 
prove your plans. There will be no bar asso- 
ciation meetings in this State before October 
and therefore your project cannot be laid 
before the local association, but I have no 
doubt that all judges and lawyers in Oregon 
will be glad to co-operate and unite with 
their professional brethren throughout the 
United States on this occasion to do honor to 
the greatest of America's jurists. It is fit- 
ting that the project be promoted by the 
American Bar Association, and its endorse- 
ment will no doubt make the way for a 
universal celebration of the day throughout 
the United States. 

Please let me know if I can be of further 
assistance. 

CHAS. H. CAREY. 



(From Pres. of South Carolina Bar Ass'n.) 
I duly received yoiir favor with enclosure 
of the 21th ultimo, and endorse with great 
pleasure the project to commemorate John 
Marshall Day on 4th of February, 1901. Our 
State Bar Association has not met for a few 
years, but I will communicate with as many 
of them as possible, and feel satisfied they 
will unite in making the movement a great 
success. GEORGE L. BUIST. 



(From Pres. of Tennessee Bar Ass'n., Nash- 
ville, Tenn.) 
Your favor of July 24th, with circular en- 
closed, came duly to hand. It will afford 
me pleasure to lay before the Bar Associa- 
tion of Tennessee, at its next meeting, the 



suggestion regarding the "Observance of 
John Marshall Day." 

J. W. BONNER. 



(From Pres. of Iowa State Bar Ass'n, Garna- 
villo, Iowa.) 

1 heartily approve of your plan to cele- 
brate on the 4th day of February. 1901. the 
centennial of the inauguration of John Mar- 
shall as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 
of the United States. 

This generation will so learn his great 
worth in giving stability to our experimen- 
tal, free government under the Constitution. 
JAMES O. CROSBY. 



(From the Pres. of North Dakota Bar Ass'n, 
Grand Forks, N. D. 

Your letter of the 24th inst. in regard to 
John Marshal! Day has been duly received 
and considered, and I take great pleasure 
in endorsing the same with my heartiest ap- 
proval. 

Our delegates from here to the American 
Bar Association will in all probability be the 
Hon. Tracey R. Bangs and myself, both of 
this city, and we will both favor, so far as 
we know now, the proposition formulated 
by you in regard to the celebration of the 
4th day of February, 1901. in substantially 
the manner proposed by you. 

J. H. BOSARD. 



(_From Richard B. Shepard. Vice-President 
of American Bar Association for Utah, 

Salt Lake City. Utah.) 
In reply to yours of the 24th inst. in refer- 
ence to the proposition to set aside and cele- 
brate February 4th, 1901 as "John Marshall 
Day" in commemoration of the services of 
chief Justice John Marshall, would say; 
that the same meets with my hearty approv- 
al and I trust that the American Bar Associa- 
tion will take such action as it may deem 
necessary to bring this matter to a head. 
RICHARD B. SHEPARD, 



(From P. K. Ewing. Sewane. Tenn.) 
Hon. F. C. Dillard. ex-president of the 
Texas Bar Association, has forwarded to- 
me correspondence between you and him 
touching your proposition relative to "John 
Marshall Day." It is to be regretted your 
proposition was not received in time to be 
laid before our association at its recent ses- 
sion. I shall, however, refer the matter to 
our accredited delegates to American Bar 
Association, and it will be, of course, within 



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"JOHN MARSHALL DAY." 



the range of their discretion to act on the 
subject as they may deem proper. 

PRESLEY K. EWING, 

Prest. Tex. Bar Asso. 



(From Geo. E. DeGolia, Secretary Oakland 
Bar Association. Oakland. Cal.) 
I am in receipt from James A. Gibson. 
Vice-President for California of the Ameri- 
can Bar Association, of a letter requesting 
the Oakland Bar Association, of which I am 
Secretary, to endorse the project and co- 
operate as much as possible in celebrating 
in 1901 the one hundredth anniversary of 
the elevation to the Bench of Chief Justice 
Marshall, with the request that I forward to 
you some expression from the Oakland Bar 
Association upon the subject-matter. 

It is now vacation here, so far as the Oak» 
land Bar Association is concerned, and a 
meeting will not be held in time to have 
formal action taken, so as to write you by 
August 28, as requested by Mr. Gibson; but 
1 have spoken to a number of the members 
who are In town, and they all have author- 
ized me to write, in behalf of our associa- 
tion, heartily endorsing the project and ex- 
pressing a willingness to do here in Oak- 
land, Cal., what little can be done so far 
away from the meeting of the American Bar 
Association. 

While I am anything but a hero-worship- 
per, still I firmly believe in showing and ex- 
pressing a regard for the life, characters, 
and work of great Americans. At the head 
of the list, from a lawyer's standpoint, at 
least, stands Chief Justice Marshall. 

I should be glad to receive from you or 
the proper authority communications from 
the American Bar Association to submit to 
our Bar Association here, and I am sure 
we will take such action as you request in 
the premises. We have not kept in close 
touch with the American Bar Association, 
for what reason, I do not know, and I hope 
that you will request your Secretary to com- 
municate with me as to our laches, if any, 
and I hope this association can be in closer 
relations with the head body than in the 
past. GEO. E. DeGOLIA, 

Secretary Oakland Bar Association, Oak- 
land, Cal. 



(From Judge Richard S. Tuthill, Circuit 
Court of Illinois, Cook County.) 

I heartily approve the plan to make Febru- 
ary 4. 1901, and in each year thereafter a 
National holiday, and to call it "John Mar- 
shall Day" — ^as stated in the proposition sub- 
mitted by you to the Illinois State Bar As- 
sociation. 

The government can continue to exist only 
60 long as the people are intelligent, honest 
and jiatriotic. Hence, it is the duty of all 



to do what we can in our day to promote 
the education, to strengthen the moral 
nature of the citizens of our Republic, andi to 
keep ever burning the fire of patriotism in 
their hearts. 

To this end, I know of no means more ef- 
ficient than the celebration of the "birth- 
days" of those citizens who by reason of 
preeminent service to their country are ac- 
cepted as types illustrating supreme devotion 
to the duties resting upon the citizens of the 
Republic. To honor a Washington and all 
those who in high or humble station aided 
in the establishment of this government by 
the people, to show the appreciation Ameri- 
cans have of the service done by a Lincoln 
and a Grant and by those, who in whatever 
place, participated in the preservation of the 
life of the nation, the people ought never to 
fail to make signal observance of the days 
already designated as holidays — the birth- 
days of Washington, of Lincoln and of 
Grant. 

One other should be added to these, and it 
was a happy and patriotic thought of yours 
to suggest that day, "John Marshall Day." 

The legal profession, always an accepted 
leader, fuirnished the reason, the elo- 
quence, and the constructive statesman- 
ship which first aroused the people, foiTnu- 
lated the protests against tyranny, and 
created, and expounded the constitution. 
Without the direction and support giv- 
en by the legal profession, at the bar 
and upon the bench, the genius, the de- 
votion, and courage of a Washington and a 
Grant, a John Paul Jones, and a Farragut 
would not have been sufficient to establish 
and maintain on land and sea this great 
Republic, the hope and pride of the world. 
Who can measure the value of the work done 
by the lawyers of America in all our his- 
tory? Among these facile princeps stands 
John Marshall. Lawyers and judges whose 
names and whose services are written high 
on the pillars of our jurisprudence and on 
the pages which tell of faithfulness to coun-- 
try and to every duty— all would be glad to 
accept John Marshall as the highest type, 
and would, could they speak to us, heartily 
endorse your proposition, as a full recogni- 
tion of the value and merit of their services. 

On "John Marshall Day" the thought of all 
Should be called to a profound contemplation 
o£ the debt America owes to John Marshall, 
and the legal profession, and to the work 
done by its members in all the great crises 
in our national history. 

RICHARD S. TUTHILL. 



(From O. N. Carter. Judge Cook County, 
Illinois.) 
I am very heartily in favor of your propo- 
sition to have memorial day in commemora- 
tion of John Marshall on February 4th, 1901. 



'JOHN MARSHALL DAY." 



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Very few— even among lawyers— appreciate 
the "great services of John Marshall. You 
will confer a lasting benefit upon our country 
if you succeed in arousing a permanent inter- 
est, as I believe you will, in his life and 
work. 

, I note with much interest in the last issue 
of "The National Corporation Reporter" the 
suggestion of a Richmond correspondent that 
something be done in connection with these 
memorial services towards putting a fitting 
monument at his grave in Richmond. About 
two years ago I happened to be in Richmond 
a few days and had considerable difficulty in 
finding the cemetery in which he was buried. 
The hotel proprietors knew nothing about 
the location — in fact, most of them did not 
know that John Marshall was buried in the 
city. After a good deal of inquiry I found 
that he was buried in the old Shockoe Hill 
cemetery. The key to the cemetery was kept 
in the County Poor House. They told me 
there at first that they did not know whether 
John Marshall's grave was in that cemetery, 
but on looking over their books they found 
such to be the fact. The keeper of the ceme- 
tery seemingly knew where the graves of all 
other noted people in the cemetery could be 
found. I finally located his grave, but the 
cemetery lot in which he and his wife are 
buried is not well kept up. He has one of 
the old fashioned tomb stones that were 
quite common years ago, especially in the 
South — a wide, flat stone covering the entire 
grave, giving his name, the date of his birth 
and death; nothing more. 

I certainly think it would be a good idea to 
remove his remains and those of his wife to 
the Hollywood Cemetery, near where Presi- 
dents Monroe and Tyler are buried, as your 
correspondent suggests. The Hollywood 
Cemetery is one of the most beautiful and 
best kept in the country. A suitable monu- 
ment ought to be erected at his grave after 
removal. President Tyler's grave has no 
monument, tombstone or mark of any kind 
— at least, there was none there two years 
ago, and I understood that none had ever 
been placed at his grave. 

ORRIN N. CARTER. 



(From Judge Philip Stein. Superior Court of 
Cook County.) 
Notwithstanding the great pressure of 
oflicial duties just now making itself felt. 1 
take advantage of a short lull in the proceed- 
ings to express to you my full and cordial 
approval of the movement initiated by you 
for a proper celehration of the day on which 
John Marshall first sat on the bench of the 
Supreme Court. If there be anything I can 
do by way of cooperation, and you desire any 
action on my part, you may command the 
services of yours truly, PHILIP STEIN. 



( From Thomas G. Windes, Justice Appellate 
Court, Chicago.) 

The proposition for the celebration of 
"John Marshall Day" as presented by you to 
the Illinois State Bar Associat;on, and unani- 
mously adopted by it, has my most cordial 
approval. 

I hope the proposition will receive the ap- 
proval of the American Bar Association as 
well as that of all State Bar Associations in 
the United States. THOMAS G. "WINDES. 



( From Judge John Gibbons. Circuit Court of 
Cook County. Chicago.) 
"i'our interesting effort in arousing the 
public to a due appreciation of the 
great debt of gratitude which it owes 
to the immortal jurist and patriot, John 
Marshall, deserve and they will undoubted- 
ly receive the plaudits of the Bench and 
Bar of America. Assuring you of my hearty 
co-operation, etc. 

JOHN GIBBONS. 



(From John Goode, Bedford City, "Va.) 

Yours of the 24th inst, with enclosure, 
has been received. 

It will afford me pleasure to call the at- 
tention of the Virginia State Bar Associa- 
tion at their annual meeting next Tuesday 
to the project referred to, and recommend it 
to their favorable consideration. 

Hoping that it may meet with the success 
it deserves, I am, etc., JOHN GOODE. 



(From Paul Bakewell. St. Louis, Mo.) 
I have received in my mail this morning 
your circular, etc., respecting the proposed 
celebration of "John Marshall Day." I ap- 
prove of the suggestion most heartily, and it 
seems to me that your suggestion must meet 
with the approval of all lovers of their pro- 
fession. It is my opinion that no lawyer 
ever lived who had a more thorough under- 
standing, and respect for, the Constitution of 
the United States, and the principles upon 
which our Federal Government is founded, 
than that great lawyer and jurist, John Mar- 
shall. * * * 

I am heartily in accord with your sugges- 
tion and will be glad to do all that lies in my 
power to make "John Marshall Day " an 
event to be remembered in the history of our 
country. PAUL BAKEWELL. 



(From John C. Black, Chicago.) 
With great pleasure I concur in your reso- 
lution presented to and approved by the Illi- 
nois State Bar Association. I shall be glad 
to have my name attached to the proposed 
memorial to the American Bar Association, 
and I authorize you to use it. 

JOHN C. BLACK. 



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•JOHN MARSHALL DAY/' 



(From William D. McNulty, Saratoga 
Springs, N. Y.) 

The proposition for the celebration of 
'■John Marshall Day." advanced by the Illi- 
nois State Bar Association, meets with my 
hearty approval, and I believe should re- 
ceive the endorsement of the American Bar 
Association. WM. D. McNULTY. 



(From Gardiner Lathrop. Kansas City. Mo., 
addressed to Sec'y Hinkley.) 
I am in hearty accord with the proposi- 
tion of Mr. Adolph Moses, of Chicago, for 
the celebration of "John Marshall Day" on 
the 4th day of February, 1901, and trust 
that the American Bar Association will take 
appropriate action looking to that end, at 
the session soon to be held at Buffalo. 

GARDINER LATHROP. 



(Fi'om Alexander Porter Morse, Washington, 
D. C.) 

Replying to request contained in your 
circular letter of this month, asking conside- 
ration of the proposition for the celebration 
of "John Marshall Day," it affords me pleas- 
ure to say to you that I will cheerfully en- 
dorse the recommendation and will coope- 
rate in any way in my power to aid in mak- 
ing it successful and creditable. 

In this country, although many burning 
questions are pressing — which demand wise 
treatment — an era of anniversary celebra- 
tions is upon us. which may be profitably 
utilized as object lessons. It is therefore 
commendable to direct the attention of our 
countrymen to those illustrious benefactors 
who have done so much to shape the gov- 
ernment under which we have prospered. 
The part which Chief Justice Marshall took 
in this development was unique and para- 
mount. It was said by one of the first Presi- 
dents of the American Bar Association, that 
we are indebted to Chief Justice Marshall for 
the American constitution. "I do not mean," 
added Mr. Phelps, "the authorship of it. or 
the adoption of it — although in that he had 
a considerable share — but in that practical 
construction, that wise administration, 
which raised it from a doubtful experiment, 
adapted with great hesitation, and likely to 
be readily abandoned if its practical work- 
ing had not been successful, raised it, I 
say, from a doubtful experiment, to a har- 
monious, a permanent, and a beneficial sys- 
tem of government, sustained by the judg- 
ment, and established in the affection of the 
people. ALEXANDER PORTER MORSE. 



(From Charles E. Shepard, Seattle, Wash.) 
I approve most cordially of the proposition 
emanating from the State Bar Association of 
Illinois for a general celebration by the 
Bench and Bar throughout the United States 



of the centenary of John Marshall's acces- 
sion to the chief justiceship of the United 
States Supreme Court. It seems to me a 
most fitting tribute by lawyers and judges to^ 
be paid to one of the greatest judges who 
ever sat on the bench. Certainly asi long as 
government under a written constitution 
limiting the powers of the government and 
preserving or giving rights to the governed 
lasts ia any English speaking country, law- 
yers will turn to Marshall's opinions for 
enlightenment on the great questions which 
must continue to arise under such constitu- 
tions. And I firmly believe that whatever 
temporary infractions of constitutional 
rights are occasionally made under stress of 
circumstances, constitutional government in 
that sense will last for many ages; and that 
it will so last will be largely due to John 
Marshall. 

As a member of the American Bar As- 
sociation I beg leave to say that I earnestly 
favor the proposed celebration. 

CHARLES E. SHEPARD. 



(From Levi L. Barbour, Detroit, Mich.) 
I have read with interest your proposition 
to celebrate "John Marshall Day" February 
4th. 1901, and heartily approve. It seems to 
me peculiarly proper to pay the respect sug- 
gested to the eminent man, and to take ad- 
vantage of the occasion to impress upon the 
nation the reverence due to law and the 
Courts, 

We have too many notorious men now 
who seem to find their only pleasure and 
solace in deriding the fountains of justice, 
and attempting to inspire a disrespect and 
disgust for everything that emanates from 
law and its enforcement. It is high time 
that the youth of the country should be led 
to consider the difference between eminent 
jurists and the demagogues who preach "the 
rights of man." LEVI L. BARBOUR. 



(From (". C. Bonney. Chicago. Illinois.) 

J approve most heartily your wise and 
noble suggestion of an appropriate celebra- 
tion by the Bench and Bar of the United 
States of the centennial of the day on which 
John Marshall first took his seat as Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court, and thank you 
very sincerely for this service to the cause 
of the administration of justice. 

In American History, the name of John 
Marshall should always be written next to 
that of George Washington. He was one of 
the greatest judges who ever lived, and his 
name will forever be a synonym of Consti- 
tutional Juriaprudence. Without the work 
which he did, the American Union could not 
have been preserved and perpetuated. 

With renewed thanks for your initiation of 
the proposed celebration, and wishing you 
the utmost success in carrying the project 
into effect, C. C. BONNEY. 



JOHN MARSHALL DAY." 



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(From E. B. Sherman, Chicago.) 
Your suggestion to the Illinois State Bar 
Association touching the celebration of the 
Centennial Anniversary of the induction of 
Mr. Chief Justice John Marshall into his 
high oflfice was most felicitous — almost an 
inspiration. 

That it will receive a favorable and en- 
thusiastic response from the bench, the bar, 
and the press of the country, I cannot doubt. 
In all the essential elements of greatness 
John Marshall easil,v measures up to the 
highest ideals of a man, a patriot and a 
Judge, and the turning of the thought of 
the nation to the mighty work he wrought, 
and its lasting benefit to us and to mankind, 
will be an educational influence which can- 
not be overestimated. The contemplation of 
such a resplendent character cannot fail to 
be an inspiration to the manhood of Ameri- 
ca. The eloquent tributes which -will be ut- 
tered on that memorable day will stir to its 
profoundest depths the heart of every 
thoughtful and patriotic citizen, and will 
strike a responsive chord wherever the 
rights of man are respected and justice sits 
enthroned. E. B. SHERMAN. 



(P'rom William S. Hammond, Altoona. Pa.) 
I received your letter of recent date pro- 
posing that February 4, 1901, be celebrated 
by the bench and bar of the United States 
as "John Marshall Day," and I write to ex- 
press my approval of the movement, assur- 
ing you that I will do all I can to make the 
celebration a fitting memorial to our Na- 
tion's most distinguished jurist. The plan 
of celebration suggested by you I think is 
good, and with the aid of the American Bar 
Association I have no doubt of its success. 
I expect to attend the annual meeting of the 
American Bar Association at Buffalo. August 
next, where I shall be pleased to meet and 
confer with you and others of our profes- 
sion interested in the project. 

WILLIAM S. HAMMOND. 



(From George W. Heiges, York, Pa. I 
I congratulate you on your inspiration to 
bring about a celebration of "John Marshall 
Day." Feb. 4, 1901, and upon the recognition 
your idea has already received. 

It is pre-eminently important that the 
youth of our beloved land in this money- 
getting and hero-worshiping age should 
have impressive object lessons of the lasting 
debt of gratitude they and the generations 
to follow them owe and shall ever owe to 
the framers of our immortal Constitution, 
among the latter John Marshall being the 
foremost and greatest. 

I most heartily approve of your movement 
and sincerely hope it shall be crowned with 
the success it deserves. 

GEORGE W. HEIGES. 



(From Myer S. Isaacs, New York.) 
I cordially commend the proposition for 
the celebration of "John Marshall Day," 
February 4th. 1901. as timely, patriotic an(^ 
significant. No tribunal in the world Is 
comparable with the Supreme Court of the 
United States. Its extraordinary powers un- 
der the Constitution make for Liberty and 
Justice; legislation adopted under stress of 
misguided public opinion is calmly and cau- 
tiously reviewed, and properly characteriz- 
ed, if in conflict with the Constitution. Ap- 
peals are heard with patience and without 
prejudice, and are considered wholly with 
reference to the law and the testimony and 
decided authoritatively. Having in 'view 
the magnificent work of Chief Justice Mar- 
shall during his long period of service in 
the Supreme Court, the people of the United 
States should embrace the opportunity of 
declaring in the most emphatic manner 
their recognition of the great influence he 
exerted in perfecting the American judicial 
'system. MYER S. ISAACS. 



(From Moses E. Clapp, St. Paul, Minn ) 
Yours of July 24th is at hand, and would 
have been answered before but for my ab- 
sence. I will do what I can to bring about 
the endorsement of the project. 

MOSES E. CLAPP. 



(Prom R. H. Wood. Charlottesville. Va.) 
I am in receipt of your circular communi- 
cation of Jul.v, 1899, enclosing an outline of 
your suggestions for the observance of 
"John Marshall Day," February 4th, 1901. 
I am in sympathy with the move, for I do 
not think that there is any man who had 
more to do with giving stability to our gov- 
ernment than John Marsliall. It seems to 
me that without such a mind and such a 
character to construe the Constitution, it 
would have been impossible for us ever to 
have had such a government as we now 
have; and I think it is proper that these 
facts should be kept fresh in the minds of 
our younger people. R. H. WOOD 



(From Wesley MoUohan Charleston W 
Va.) 

Yours of the 24th ult., addressed to Hon. 
D. C. Westenhaver, as President of the West 
Virginia State Bar Association, has been 
enclosed to me, as I am now the President. 
I have read the circular setting forth the ac- 
tion of the Illinois State Bar Association in 
respect to a "John Marshall Day," and per- 
sonally it has my hearty approval. 

The annual meeting of our association will 
be held some time during the fall, the Exe- 
cutive Committee not having vet decided 
upon the exact date, and the matter will 



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•JOHN MARSHALL DAY. 



theu be presented to the association for ac- 
tion, and it is my judgment that it will re- 
ceive the approbation and endorsement of 
the association, W. MOLLOHAN. 



(From Luther Laflin Mills, Chicago.) 

Permit me to express to you my high ap- 
preciation of the suggestion which you have 
made to the people, and particularly to the 
lawyers, of the country, and which will, un- 
doubtedly, be carried out, that the 4th of 
February. 1901 — the one hundredth anniver- 
sary of the assuming by John Marshall of 
the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court 
of the United States— should be made a day 
of national celebration. 

To the student of American history John 
Marshall appears as a colossal figure among 
the great men of the RepTuTlic— a mighty 
builder of its noble fabric, a soldier, a 
statesman, a leader among lawyers, the 
greatest of judges, the wisest judicial inter- 
preter of the Federal Constitution. As the 
Chief Justice in times of dangerous political 
controversies, he did as much as any other 
man of our past to anchor the States in 
unity and nationality. 

Of his life and work it is well that all the 
people should be reminded. He stood for 
the supremacy of the Federal Constitution; 
he was the foremost judicial exponent of the 
fundamental principles of our national ex- 
istence. Every American should know the 
career of this great man, who is worthy to 
be a hero to every patriot. 

The benefit to the mind and conscience of 
our citizens, which will come from the cele- 
bration of the proposed John Marshall Day, 
with all its educating and inspiring influ- 
ences, may not be measured. On that day 
the people will receive abiding lessons <of so- 
cial duty; they will direct their thoughts to 
the salutary power of our system of laws, 
and especially to that of the Federal Su- 
preme Court which among all the institu- 
tions of our government is the nation's 
strongest safeguard, and of which he, who 
will be the hero of the hour, was the wisest 
and greatest judge in its history; and they 
will renewedly recognize law as a defender 
of American Liberty and more fully realize 
the truth that obedience to law, in this Re- 
public, is the best guaranty of the welfare 
of the individual citizen, and the prosperity 
and permanence of the national life. 

LUTHER LAFLIN MILLS. 



(From Chas. H. Pennypacker, West Chester, 
Pa.) 

Your circular letter has been received, and 
its suggestions receive my unqualified appro- 
val. 

John Marshall was the cogent factor in 
making the American Republic possible to 
exist. His exposition of constitutional prin- 



ciples, his definitions of the limitations and 
powers of this government which had 
emerged from a confederation of states, were 
strong and timely, and his opinion made the 
tribunal which he adorned respected at home 
and abroad. CHAS. H. PENNYPACKER. 



(From James DeWitt Andrews, Chicago.) 

In reference to establishing a John Mar- 
shall Day, I desire to say that if the inten- 
tion is to select the great Chief Justice as 
the exponent of the American Judiciary I 
heartily commend the plan. 

If, on the other hand, the celebration is to 
be in any sense a personal one, intending 
directly or indirectly to exa'lt this learned 
jurist above all others and thereby eclipse 
rather than illumine the greatness of our 
other great jurists I should just as heartily 
disapprove. 

The sentiment which he expres.-^ed was 
perhaps never more appropriate than at the 
present. I refer to his expression: "I have 
thought from my earliest youth till now, 
that the greatest scourge an angry heaven 
can inflict upon an ungrateful and a sinning 
people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a de- 
pendent judiciary. Will you draw down this 
curse upon Virginia?" 

I commend a project which tends to make 
the American people as familiar with the 
greatness of our judiciary as has other cele- 
brations tended to familiarize them with the 
great patriots and statesmen of the nation. 
JAMES DeWITT ANDREWS. 



(From E. A. Otis, Chicago.) 

I heartily approve your suggestion that 
the One Hundredth Anniversary of the ap- 
pointment of Chief Justice Marshall be ap- 
propriately observed by the American Bar. 

With due respect to the distinguished men 
wno have preceded and followed him in that 
high office, none have exercised so wide an 
influence on our institutions and system of 
government. 

When Marshall came to the Supreme 
Bench, our Constitution and Eleven Amend- 
ments were yet to be construed, and the 
lines between Executive, Legislative and 
Judicial powers to be marked out and es- 
tablished. Our present system of govern- 
ment had been in existence only eleven 
years, and less than one hundred cases had 
come before the Supreme Court of the 
United States, where one hundred and sev- 
enty volumes of reports have since been 
issued. 

Every question that ever came before him 
was discussed with profound learning and 
ability. 

We are, perhaps, indebted to Chief Justice 
Marshall more than to any other man liv- 
ing or dead, for the clearly defined lines 



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upon which our judicial system is upheld, 
and our Constitutional rights conserved and 
protected. E. A. OTIS. 



(From Isaac N. Blodgett. Franklin. N. H.) 
The proposition for the celebration o£ 
"John Marshall Day." February 4. 1904, 
meets my cordial approval and I shall be 
pleased to afford any aid within my power. 
ISAAC N. BLODGETT. 



(From James H. Raymond, Chicago.) 
I have your favor of the loth inst. It will 
give me pleasure to aid in any manner re- 
quested, both at the approaching meeting of 
the American Bar Association, which I shall 
attend, and subsequently, in furthering your 
proposition for a celebration February 4th, 
1901, of "John Marshall Day." 

JAMES H. RAYMOND. 



(From R. M. Bashford, Madison. Wis.) 
if ours at hand relating to the celebration 
of "John Marshall Day" throughout the 
United States on February 4th, 1901. and the 
proposition meets my hearty approval. The 
plan outlined in your circular seems well 
calculated to provide for the proper obser- 
vance of the occasion at Washington and 
throughout the land. It will tend to impress 
upon the people the great service John Mar- 
shall rendered the nation, and the impor- 
tance of adhering strictly to those principles 
of constitutional government. 

R. M. BASHFORD. 



(From Charles M. Campbell, Denver. Colo.) 
I heartily accord with every paragraph of 
the proposition formulated and submitted 
by you for the celebration of "John Mar- 
shall Day." and adopted by the Illinois State 
Bar Association. 

CHARLES M. CAMPBELL. 



(From Benjamin Rice Forman. New Or- 
leans.) 

The proposition to celebrate the centen- 
nial anniversary of the induction into office 
of John Marshall as Chief Justice of the 
United States meets with my approval. 

It is to be desired that the "Committee of 
the American Bar Association" who may be 
charged with dealing with his opinions on 
constitutional law. will mark and emphasize 
the points on which they have been over- 
niled and departed from as well as those on 
which they have been followed. 

B. R. FORMAN. 



(From Reuben Hatch. Grand Rapids, Mich.) 
Your favor in reference to the celebration 

of "John Marshall Day" February 4, 1901, is 

received. 
I approve of the plan proposed and should 

be very glad to see it carried out. 

REUBEN HATCH. 



(From Ogden H. Fethers, Janesville, Wis.) 
At the suggestion of my friend Chief Jus- 
tice Cassoday I send my hearty approval of 
your noble effort looking toward the ob- 
servance of "Marshall Day." Our profession 
should have at least one day in the year for 
common observance and none can be more 
fitting than the day upon which our greatest 
law-giver was elevated to the world's great- 
est judicial dignity. When February 4. 1901, 
shall come I trust that you will present a 
plan to make that day a permanent yearly 
festival. 

Permit me to congratulate you, not only 
upon the inception, but on the certain ful- 
fillment of your effort to honor the memory 
of Marshall. OGDEN H. FETHERS. 



(From S. S. Gregory, Chicago, 111.) 

I beg to say that I entirely approve your 
suggestion to duly commemorate the Cen- 
tennial Anniversary of the accession of John 
Marshall as Chief Justice of the United 
States. Great in talents and in opportunity, 
as Washington was the Father of his coun- 
try, Marshall was the father of American 
Constitutional law. Indeed while he has 
often been compared to the great magis- 
trates who have presided in the Courts of 
England, his just fame and mighty achieve- 
ment far surpass what can properly be 
claimed for the greatest of these. It can 
probably truthfully be said that no one man, 
with the possible exception of Justinian, has 
exercised so wide and far reaching an in- 
fluence upon the Jurisprudence of Caucasian 
Civilization. 

Nor is this influence ephemeral or tem- 
porary. As our constitution seems to com- 
bine in such an excellent degree the prin- 
ciples of Imperial unity and local self gov- 
ernment, it must ever be a model to which 
other States shall aspire as Republican in- 
stitutions prevail and extend throughout the 
world: and it was in the discussion and just 
regulation of the contending forces in this 
system, that Marshall rendered his most 
conspicuous service and left the records of 
those great judgments which not only sus- 
tained the conclusions of his Court but con- 
vinced and informed the reason of mankind. 

It is fitting that the Bar of America, of 
which he was a distinguished member, 
should take the initiative in this matter. 

Nor is it inappropriate that it should orig- 
inate in Illinois. She is indeed a daughter 
of Virginia, and Abraham Lincoln, her im- 



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'JOHN MAESHALL DAY." 



mortal son, whom, in person and in a cer- 
tain sort of popular simplicity, Marshall 
much resembled, was descended from the 
sons and daughters of that State. 

I have no doubt the American Bar Asso- 
ciation, will at its approaching session, take 
suitable action upon your suggestion and 
make preliminary arrangements for the 
commemoration of this important anniver- 
sary: and I think we all may well feel grate- 
ful to you that, under a happy inspiration, 
you have directed the attention of the pro- 
fession to this most interesting subject. 
S. S. GREGORY. 



(From Ephraim Banning. Chicago.) 
You are entitled to a vote of thanks from 
the American Bar generally for your sug- 
gestion with reference to the celebration of 
John Marshall Day, February 4, 1901; and I 
sincerely hope that, the American Bar As- 
sociation taking the lead, the day may be 
celebrated in a way that will show a grasp 
and appreciation of your suggestion that will 
l)e more pleasing and complimentary than 
any vote of thanks that could be adopted by 
all the bar associations in the country. As 
a lawyer you have said and done many good 
things, but, in my judgment, you have never 
said or done anything tliat in its importance 
and far reaching influence begins to equal 
this proposition on your part. 

As a member of the American Bar Associ- 
ation. I sincerely hope that body will take 
strong action in favor of your proposition 
and do everything in its power to make the 
celebration worthy of the great occasion 
which it commemorates. 

EPHRAIM BANNING. 



all the tempest and turmoil of the most 
venomous political strife which this country 
has ever seen no one to-day can accuse him 
of deviating from the right or of lending 
his high judicial office for the purpose of 
advancing the political fortunes of his 
friends or of his friends' friends. 

An emphasis on this feature of his char- 
acter and public work, in these days of judi- 
cial uncertainty, would be of more value 
than all the laud and praise and commenda- 
tion on the magnificence of his decisions. 

My mother knew the Chief Justice and 
was often at his house in Washington and 
I have often heard her talk of his simplicity 
and earnestness, and he and the rest of his 
family always ascribed to his father. Col. 
Thomas Marshall, more ability than the 
Chief Justice had, but it was the sterling 
integrity of the Judge in all his career which 
I think should be emphasized in whatever 
proceedings will be taken on the "John Mar- 
shall Day." Let that trait of his character 
be held up to the admiration of the bench, 
the bar and the youth of the land and great 
and lasting good will come from this mem- 
orial occasion. JOHN M. SMEDES. 



(From R. W. Breckenridge. Omaha.) 
I am in receipt of a statement of a prop- 
osition formulated by you and submitted to 
the Illinois State Bar Association at its re- 
cent meeting, for the celebration of Febru- 
ary 4th, 1901, as "John Marshall Day." The 
idea appeals to me very strongly and if it 
meets with anything like general approba- 
tion I shall be very glad to do what I can 
to interest our local bar association in the 
project. R. W. BRECKENRIDGE. 



(From John M. Smedes, Cincinnati, O.) 

I received your letter some few days 
since, in regard to the proposed "John Mar- 
shall Day," Feb. 4, 1901. 

The work of Chief Justice Marshall, like 
that of every other man. was in part perma- 
nent and in part transitory; the permanent 
part will endure and needs no occasion of 
this kind to give it efficacy. 

There is one feature of the Chief Justice's 
character which is very frequently lost sight 
of to-day and that is to my mind his strong- 
est trait — his incorruptible integrity. In 
these days when judges are made for the 
purpose of carrying out the wills of indivi- 
duals and of corporations it is well to em- 
phasize in the character of that great law- 
yer and judge the fact that the law was to 
him a pearl above price and private inter- 
ests and private views had no weight what- 
soever where the glory and majesty of the 
law were involved. 

I think the most enduring work of John 
Marshall will arise from the fact that amid 



(Prom A. B. Cummins. Des Moines, Iowa.) 
I have your letter with respect to the cel- 
ebration of "John Marshall Day." I am in 
hearty sympathy with the proposal, and 
whatever I can do to aid in carrying out 
the plan will be gladly done. The people 
of the United States could do no more fit- 
ting thing in the early days of the Twen- 
tieth Century than to pause and reflect upon 
the virtues of a man who more than any 
other one man gave to the Constitution 
fullness, strength and symmetry; not. in- 
deed, as an author, but in the more diflScult 
and, if possible, more honorable office of 
expounder. a. B. CUMMINS. 



(From Morris M. Cohn, Little Rock, Ark.) 
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your 
favor of the 24th of July, relating to the 
observance of a "John Marshall Day." I do 
not see how any lawyer in this country can 
object to the observance of a day, commem- 
orative of that great judge. And as I claim 



JOHN MARSHALL DAY." 



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to be a lawyer I am heartily in. accord with 
the sentiments contained in the resolution 
which, at your instance, has been adopted 
by the Illinois State Bar Association upon 
that subject. MORRIS M. COHN. 



(From Thomas Dent. Chicago.) 
The proposition which you submitted to 
the Illinois State Bar Association with refer- 
ence to making Monday, February 4, 1901, 
"John Marshall Day." to commemorate by 
special exercises the close of the first cen- 
tury from the time of his taking his seat as 
Chief Justice, is quite far reaching. I have 
no doubt that the movement is timely, and 
that, speaking in general terms, it will meet 
■with much approval, and will be made the 
occasion of conveying useful lessons to the 
older as well as to the younger members of 
the Bar, and to our people generally, who 
can not know it too well nor appreciate too 
highly the lofty character and great services 
of Chief Justice Marshall. 

The pen of history has recorded in indel- 
ible letters many fair names, distinguished 
for high attainments, wisely employed, and 
for noble achievementsi evincing greatness 
of mind, heart and will. Happily a conside- 
rable number of these have been nurtured by 
our g'ood soil, here in America, some when 
Provinces submitted to kingly rule, and 
others under a government more synony- 
mous with liberty, a liberty regulated by 
law, ordained and cherished by the people. 
Among all these the name of John Marshall 
is worthy of inscription upon one of the chief 
pedestals, yes, upon the keystone of a grand 
arch, as that of a mighty master architect 
and builder of our constitutional framework. 
While this endures, his name must be en- 
twined with it. THOMAS DENT. 



(From D. K. Young. Clinton, Tenn.) 
I most cordially endorse the proposition 
for the celebration of "John Marshall Day" 
February 4. 1901. John Marshall, the ripe 
statesman, the great lawyer, and the match- 
less judge, deserves to be remembered anfl 
honored by the whole American people. His 
opinions upon great questions of law and 
especially upon Constitutional law, will ring 
down the ages and will be authority so long 
as the world has an English speaking people. 
This legal giant stands in heroic mould, in 
bold relief high above all lawyers and judges 
that have appeared upon legal forum for the 
past one hundred years if not for all the 
ages of the past. D. K. YOUNG. 



(From Charles Martindale, Indianapolis.') 

I have read with pleasure your proposal 

for the celebration of "John Marshall Day" 



February 4, 1901, which meets with my 
hearty approval. I shall take pleasure in 
voting for the proposal should it be brought 
forward at the ensuing meeting of thi 
American Bar Aasociation. 

Surely every lawyer appreciates the debt 
of gratitude which the nation owes to the 
great Chief Justice whose wisdom was am- 
ple for the great tasks laid upon him and 
whose courage was equal to his wisdom. In 
our public schools where civil government 
is a part of the course of study I find that 
the name of Marshall is not unknown to 
the students and it is my belief that the 
celebration of his achievements will be as 
welcome in the public schools as in the col- 
leges and law schools. 

CHARLES MARTINDALE. 



(From J. J. McCarthy, Dubuque, Iowa. I 

Your note of recent date concerning the 
appropriate observance of the 100th anni- 
versary of the elevation of John Marshall 
to the position of Chief Justice of the Su- 
preme Court of the United States, came 
duly to hand. I have carefully noted the 
resolutions adopted by the Illinois Bar As- 
sociation on the subject. 

The history of John Marshall is a history 
of the first third of the present century. 
He was a soldier, legislator and Jurist. In 
the latter capacity he excelled. His logic 
was as clear as his character was pure. His 
interpretation of the Constitution gives him 
a lasting place with the greatest of the 
many great lawyers of the old school. He 
saw legal principles in the clear sunlight 
of a summer's morning, while others saw 
them only in the haze and the moonlight. 

Yes. I say. let every court house and every 
school house in the nation on February 4th, 
1901. be dedicated to an enthusiastic cele- 
bration of John Marshall Day. Nothing, in 
my opinion, can do more for the cause of 
legal education and higher and nobler pur- 
poses of bench and bar. 

I shall not be present at the meeting of 
the American Bar Association, to be held in 
August, this year. I would favor a plan by 
which every bar association should meet 
upon February 4th, and arrange in advance 
to have papers read by members touching 
the life, character and works of the great 
man. I would ask the writers to draw such 
inferences and conclusions as to them might 
seem Just. Let the scope of the papers be as 
broad as one might desire, but papers to be 
limited to 2,500 to 3,000 words. I would 
adopt the same plan for every school house 
in the land. In this manner we can perpe-- 
tuate the memory of one whose fame is as 
enduring as that of the Constitution itself. 

J. J. McCarthy. 



2(; 



"JOHN MARSHALL DAY." 



(From J. M. Parsons, Rock Rapids, Iowa.) 
Your communication in reference to "John 
Marshall Day" received. In reply will say 
that I heartily endorse the action of the Illi- 
nois State Bar Association with reference to 
commemoration of the 100th anniversary of 
the day this great jurist and statesman took 
his place as Chief Justice upon the Supreme 
Bench of the United States. 

To Marshall, perhaps more than to any 
other one man, with the possible exception 
of the great Washington himself, was our 
experiment of a constitutional Federative 
Republic made a success. It was the con- 
stant hammering of Chief Justice Marshall 
■which welded union so that it has been able 
to sustain wrenches which would have torn 
asunder and destroyed almost any other 
government which undertook to govern so 
great an extent of territory with such diver- 
gent interests in the different parts of the 
same. 

In the event of my being present at the 
meeting of the American Bar Association at 
Buffalo, should your proposition come before 
that body, I will take pleasure in supporting 
it. J. M. PARSONS. 



(Fiom James Pirtle, Louisville, Ky.) 

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your 
communication addressed to the Bar of the 
United States in reference to the celebration 
of John Marshall Day. 

It will give me great pleasure to partici- 
pate in the celebration to do honor to the 
memory of John Marshall. The Bar of the 
United States still looks to him as the great- 
est of Judges. He has been succeeded on 
the Supreme Bench by many very great 
men, but his pre-eminence is not ques- 
tioned. 

One of the most interesting addresses 
made before the American Bar Association 
is that of Edward J. Phelps, many years 
since, upon John Marshall. 

The occasion should draw together a full 
and representative assembly of the lawyers 
and judges of the United States and make 
the day one whose influence will be felt far 
into the next century, and perhaps through 
all time, as the influence upon our institu- 
tions of John Marshall certainly will be. 
.lAMES S. PIRTLE. 



(From Albert A. Baker, Providence, R. I.) 
Your communication in reference to "John 
Marshall Day" received. I approve of the 
proposition. In practical ability and accom- 
plishment I believe John Marshall was the 
greatest judge that ever lived, and that no 
judge since has been privileged to accom- 
plish a life work of such far reaching im- 
portance. ALBERT A. BAKER. 



(From C. Floyd Huff, of the Arkansas Bar, 
Hot Springs, Ark.) 
It is with pleasure that I add my endorse- 
ment to your proposition for the celebration 
of "John Marshall Day." I was recently one 
of the delegates to the Commercial Law 
League^ that met at Asbury Park, and I 
voted for a resolution endorsing this day as 
a day to be celebrated by lawyers all over 
the country, and will be glad to see it done. 
C. FLOYD HUFF. 



(From Darius H. Pingrey, Bloomington, 111.) 
Your circular is before me. I most 
cheerfully concur in celebrating "John 
Marshall Day." Your suggestion is very 
opportune, for which the Bench and 
the Bar should thank you. We all recog- 
nize John Marshall as one of the greatest 
jurists of the world. His decisions crystal- 
lized constitutional liberty, which to-day is 
shared by every citizen of our Republic. 
Before his construction of the Constitution 
it was an instrument of glittering phrases 
couched in admirable diction; after, it is an 
instrument of profound meaning, which Is 
the basis of our republican institutions and 
of the people's liberty. 

I shall be ready to co-operate to the best 
of my ability. 

DARIUS H. PINGREY, 



(From E. K. Sumerwell, New York.) 
Your favor of 18th regarding the "John 
Marshall Day" duly received. I have read 
with great interest the circular enclosed and 
fully approve your suggestions and believe 
it will be favorably received by the Commer- 
cial Law League. E. K. SUMERWELL. 



(From J. W. McLoud, South McAlester, I. T.) 
I fully approve of the proposition to cele- 
brate John Marshall Day February 4th, 1901. 
Chief Justice Marshall did more than any 
statesman to strengthen the National Gov- 
ernment, to enlarge and make practicable 
the national constitution, to preserve and 
give stability to all chartered institutions 
and to preserve inviolable the obligations 
of contracts. J. W. McLOUD. 



(From J. W. Douglass. Washington, D. C.) 
Your proposition for a "John Marshall 
Day," with the printed slip explaining its 
purpose and possible scope, is received. The 
suggestion will no doubt meet with the 
hearty and loving support of the Bar of the 
United States. 

To Marshall we owe largely our broad and 
deep constitutional Federal conditions. 
While I write I have before me a fine rep- 
resentation of his grand head and gentle, 



JOHN MARSHALL DAY." 



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dignified mien. Nature liad I'uinished him 
with every equipment of mind and body to 
ilU with grace the high position he held, 
and to accomplish the great results ot his 
famous judicial career. 

I hope and believe that the A. B. Ass'n 
will adopt and push your happy and pa- 
triotic suggestion. J. W. DOUGLASS. 



(From Smeltzer V. Kemp. Bedford City. Va.) 
Your communication, with enclosures, con- 
cerning the celebration and commemora- 
tion of February 4, 1901, as ",John Marshall 
Day" is at hand. The action which you 
inspired the Illinois State Bar Association 
to take I think is most commendable, and it 
is my impression that you will find the 
Virginia Bar eager to lend their support in 
perfecting the plans suggested. If there is 
one great lawyer more than another to 
whom the legal profession of this common- 
wealth points with pride it is that consci- 
entious and invulnerable upholder of the 
Constitution whose memory you desire to 
keep fresh in the minds of the people ot the 
land. You may, I think, rely on the law- 
yers of thi.s State to give their full share of 
encouragement to vour very laudalile pur- 
pose. SMELTZER V. KEMP. 



(From Jas. H. Webb, New Haven, Conn.) 
I have recently received by mail, a printed 
circular setting forth your proposition for 
the celebration of "John Marshall Day" re- 
cently adopted by the Illinois State Bar As- 
sociation. The idea seems to me to be a most 
happy one, and I trust it will receive the 
powerful support of the American Bar As- 
sociation at its annual meeting so soon to be 
held at Buffalo. The effect of a national 
testimonial of gratitude for the services of 
this great judge, such as you propose, would 
be well worth all the effort it costs. 

JAMES H. WEBB. 



(From David W. Yancey. Commissioner to 

the Five Civilized Tribes, Muskogee, 

Indian Territory. ) 

Your "John Marshall Day" circular was 

received this morning. I think that the legal 

profession of America should have a Day 

distinctively their own, and I know of no 

better name that could be selected for it. 

fhan that of our greatest jurist, thereby 

"making the name of Marshall a household 

word throughout the land." 

DAVID W. YANCEY. 



(From Francis J. Swayze, Newark, N. J.) 

I heartily approve of your proposition to 

celebrate "John Marshall Day" on February 



4th, 1901. I am very glad indeed that you 
have taken up the matter. 

F. J. SWAYZE. 



(From C. Suydam Scott, Lexington, Ky.) 
I acknowledge with thanks and apprecia- 
tion your suggestions as to "John Marshall 
Day." 

It seems to me eminently fit that this 
greatest of judges should be specially re- 
membered by us on the centennial of the be- 
ginning of his paramount work. 

C. SUYDAM SCOTT. 



(From Wm. S. Windle, West Chester, Pa.) 
Your proposition for the celebration ot 
"John Marshall Day." February 4, 1901, I 
heartily endorse. WILLIAM S. WINDLE. 



(From F. W. Stevens, Grand Rapids, Mich.) 
I am advised that a proposition will be 
submitted to the American Bar Association 
at its next meeting, to celebrate "John Mar- 
shall Day." I have been requested to ex- 
press my views to you on the subject. It 
strikes me that the proposition is a good 
one, and anything I can do in this vicinity 
to further it. I shall do very gladly. 

F. W. STEVENS. 



(From Henry T. Rogers, Denver, Colo.) 
I heartily approve of the proposition for 
the celebration of John Marshall Day, on 
Feb. 4, 1901, and will be glad to co-operate, 
so far as I am able to do so, in any plans 
that may be arranged for the event. 

HENRY T. ROGERS. 



(From Gilbert S. Hawkins, Bel Air, Md.) 
I am in receipt of your letter requesting 
me to consider your proposition in reference 
to "John Marshall Day," and in reply will 
say that I am heartily in accord with your 
plan and as a member of the Bar and a citi- 
zen of the United States I most sincerely en- 
dorse your idea to commemorate the great 
event, which gave to this Republic so pow- 
erful and logical a mind as Chief Justice 
Marshall possessed. 

GILBERT S. HAWKINS. 



(From Duncan U. Fletcher, Jacksonville, 
Fla.) 

Your proposition looking to the celebration 
of February 4th, 1901. as "John Marshall 
Day," the event of John Marshall taking 
his seat in the Supreme Court of the United 
States, is very appropriate as well as com- 
mendable in all its details. We should 



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'JOHM MAESHALL DAY." 



pause at this century mark and pay fitting 
tribute to liis memory and express apprecia- 
tion tor his great worl«. I trust your efforts 
will receive the endorsement of the Ameri- 
can Bar Association and all public spirited 
citizens everywhere. D. U. FLETCHER. 



(From Walter I. Dawkins. Baltimore. Md.) 
I have received your communication in 
reference to the proposed celebration of 
•■John Marshall Day." The same meets with 
my very heartiest approval, and I therefore 
hasten to reply. If there were anything pos- 
sible for me to do to aid in the celebration, 
I should most cheerfully do it. This great 
statesman and jurist has always had my ad- 
miration. I wish you the fullest measure 
of success in the effort you are making to 
perpetuate the memory of John Marshall. 
WALTER I. DAWKINS. 



(From S. S. Wheeler. Lima, Ohio.) 
I heartily concur in the suggestions and 
resolutions for a "John Marshall Day." His 
decisions are a text-book upon every subject 
he touched; and every lawyer ought to be 
proud of his work, and every American citi- 
zen ought to be grateful for the interpreta- 
tion and strength he gave to our Constitu- 
tion. Every department of our government 
cannot too highly honor the memory of John 
Marshall. I should be very glad to assist 
in any way possible. 

S. S. WHEELER. 



(From F. C. Winkler, Milwaukee, Wis.) 
A thoughtful observance ol: "John Mar- 
shall Day" as outlined on your motion by 
the Illinois State Bar Association would, in 
my judgment, be highly creditable to the 
Bar of the United States, tending to direct 
public thought to the higher ideals of Am- 
erican statesmanship. I approve it heartily. 
F. C. WINKLER. 



(From Gustave A. Wolf, Grand Rapids, 
Mich.) 

Your proposition to inaugurate "John 
Marshall Day" I think deserves the approval 
of the entire bench and bar. 

One benefit to be derived from the general 
celebration proposed each year, will be to 
hold up the ideal judge and lawyer before 
the whole country, and help regain that 
popular respect for the profession, which 
seems of recent years to have been some- 
what on the decline. 

The luster of the name and fame of the 
immortal jurist will certainly reflect a kind- 
ly light upon those who struggle to follow 
in his footsteps. ■ G. A. WOLF. 



(From R. W. Williams, Tallahassee, Fla.) 
Your communications in reference to 
"John Marshall Day" received. 

The proposals therein contained have my 
approbation, and if the result thereof shall 
be to make it more certain "that constitu- 
tional government shall remain with us in 
its full and unimpaired strength, in the 
twentieth century and through the centuries 
to come," the people of this country will be 
the beneficiaries, and the bench and bar ot 
the United States will be fuUv repaid. 

R. W. WILLIAMS. 



(From George W. Radford, Detroit, Mich.) 
The proposition contained in your circu- 
lar just received for the celebration of "John 
Marshall Day," meets with my most hearty 
approval. If the plan is carried out it cer- 
tainly will prove a lasting benefit to, not 
only our profession, but to the entire peo- 
ple of the United States. There has never 
been in the entire judiciary of the world, a 
more colossal and magnificent mind than 
that of John Marshall. The historical epoch 
and long extended service furnished him the 
period in which he created a mental monu- 
ment which his countrymen should by all 
means suitably decorate upon the centen- 
nial of his accession to the Supreme Bench. 
The plan outlined by you is certainly most 
appropriate. GEORGE W. RADFORD. 



(From R. S. Woodruff, Pres't Judge Com- 
mon Pleas, Trenton, N. J.) 

I heartily approved of the action of the 
Illinois State Bar Association in relation to 
the celebration of "John Marshall Day" afiJ 
1 fee] quite sure that the American Bar As- 
sociation will endorse, with earnestness, the 
proposition. 

It appeals to every lawyer in the country, 
and should receive his enthusiastic support. 
R. S. WOODRUFF. 



(From W. H. Farnsworth, Sioux City, la.) 
I am in receipt of your circular requesting 
consideration of the proposition to com- 
memorate "John Marshall Day." This is a 
splendid idea and should be taken hold of 
by the lawyers of this country with great 
interest. The times need some exemplifica- 
tion of the great work of Judge Marshall In 
expounding the constitution of the United 
States. I heartily approve your plan and 
shall he pleased to assist in any way possi- 
ble. W. H. FARNSWORTH. 



"JOHN MARSHALL DAY." 



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(From L. Frank Ottofy, St. Louis, Mo.) 
I beg heartily to commend your proposi- 
tion to honor the name of Chief Justice 
Marshall. 

It will be a fitting tribute tO' the sterling 
worth of one of the most ardent supporters 
of the constitution. It is hoped, also, that 
the lesson of his ennobling, fearless charac- 
ter may kindle an everlasting flame of inde- 
pendent thought and spirit in the judiciary 
of the nation. L. FRANK OTTOFY. 



(From Alexander New, Kansas City. Mo.) 
I beg to acknowledge receipt of the 
pamphlet with reference to the proposition 
originated by you, having as its object the 
celebration of "John Marshall Day." The 
proposition, and the efforts that are being 
made, are certainly characteristic of your 
usual energy and patriotism. 

I expect to attend the meeting of the 
American Bar Association, and shall be 
pleased to render you what assistance I can. 
ALEXANDER NEW. 



(From C. S. Montgomery, Omaha, Neb.) 
Your proposition for the celebration of 
"John Marshall Day," forwarded to me with 
your recent favor, has interested me greatly. 
It is very broad in its scope and necessarily 
involves much time and labor of many per- 
sons, but, nevertheless, it seems practicable 
and can doubtless be carried out if the Am- 
erican Bar Association will endorse and the 
proper men will agree to manage it. Doubt- 
less, the effect of the proposed celebration, 
if successfully prosecuted upon the lines 
which you suggest, will be of lasting benefit, 
not only to the legal profession, but to the 
whole people. 

The plan, therefore, has my approval, and 
I will be glad to act accordingly. 

C. S. MONTGOMERY. 



(From U. S. Lesh, Huntington, Ind.) 
I am in hearty sympathy with your prop- 
osition to celebrate "John Marshall Day, ' 
and am willing to contribute my mite in 
furtherance of the scheme. U. S. LESH. 



(Prom Philip Lindsley, Dallas Texas.) 
The proposition for the celebration of 
"John Marshall Day" Feb. 4, 1901, has now 
my hearty approval, and, at the proper time, 
will have all the aid I can give it. Such a 
celebration will be like injecting new blood, 
from the purest source, into the professional 
veins of the country. 

PHILIP LINDSLEY. 



(From Thos. J. Pereles, Milwaukee, Wis.) 
I acknowledge receipt of your circular let- 
ter in re celebration of "John Marshall Day" 
on February 4, 1901. The same meets with 
my hearty approval. 

THOS. JEFFERSON PERELES. 



I From M. Norris, Grand Rapids, Mich.) 
I am in receipt of your communication as 
to the celebration of John Marshall Day. In 
my judgment such a celebration would be a 
worthy commemoration of Marshall's as- 
sumption of the judicial ermine. 

M. NORRIS. 



(From Burr W. Jones, Madison, Wis.) 
I heartily concur in your proposition for 
the celebration of "John Marshall Day." 
BURR W. JONES. 



(From Jno. H. Dinneen, Baltimore, Md.) 
I heartily favor the proposed movement to 
do honor to the judicial labors of Ch. J. 
Marshall, and if I attend the approaching 
meeting of the American Bar Association, I 
shall advocate there the resolution proposed. 
JNO. H. DINNEEN. 



(From Morris Brandon. Atlanta, addressed 
to Sec'y Hinkley.) 
I wish to endorse fully the proposition 
for the celebration of John Marshall Day on 
February 4th, 1901, by the lawyers of the 
country, and I trust that the celebration 
will take place as proposed. 

MORRIS BRANDON. 



(From John C. Avery, Pensacola, Fla.) 
I heartily approve of the plan proposed by 
you for celebrating, in a fitting way, "John 
Marshall Day" on February 4th, 1901. 

JOHN C. AVERY. 



(From John Morris, Jr., Fort Wayne, Ind.) 
I believe it to be well and fitting that the 
4th day of February, 1901, be observed as 
"John Marshall Day" by the Bench and Bar 
of the country in accordance with your 
proposition adopted by the Illinois State Bar 
Association. JOHN MORRIS, JR. 



(From S. H. Allen, Topeka.) 
Your letter of the 24th ult., inclosing cir- 
cular proposing a celebration of John Mar- 
shall Day on Feb. 4, 1901, was duly received. 
While I am no longer president of the State 
Bar Association, having been succeeded by 



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'JOHN MAKSHALL DAY." 



C. C. Coleman, Esq.. of Clay Center, it will 
afford me pleasure to call the matter to the 
attention of the next annual meeting if held 
prior to the date you name. The annual 
meetings are usually held in .January. It 
would probably be well for you to corre- 
spond with Mr. Coleman also. 

S. H. ALLEN. 



(From W. P. Stafford. St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 
Your letter of 24th inst.. to Hon. E. T. 
Waterman, as Prest. of the Vt. Bar Asso.. 
has been referred to me as the President 
of that association for the current year. Mr. 
Waterman's term having expired last Octo- 
ber. 

I am in hearty accord with the plan and 
views set forth in the resolution and beg 
to be permitted to do all that I may in fur- 
therance of the project. Our next meeting 
will be in October— later than the meeting 
of the American Bar Association, so that as 
an association we shall not be able to join 
in the memorial to the American Bar Asso- 
ciation, but I am sure we shall wish to take 
whatever action may be helpful when we do 
meet. 

I shall be grateful if you will keep me in- 
formed of the progress of the enterprise and 
of the ways in which we of the Vt. Bar can 
be useful. I may not be able to attend at 
Buffalo. W. P. STAFFORD. 



(From John D. Milliken, McPherson, Kan,) 
I am in receipt of your circular letter of 
the 24th inst. relative to the project of hav- 
ing a John Marshall memorial day for the 
purpose, first of exciting a deeper interest 
in the study of constitutional law, and sec- 
ond, to honor this profound judge, lawyer 
and logician. The scheme is meritorious, but 
I am not so sanguine of its success, however, 
I am in favor of every forward movement 
and will be glad to contribute my small part 
to the accomplishment of the much desired 
purpose. Wishing you success, I am, with 
assurances of regard, 

JOHN D. MILLIKEN. 



(From F. C. Dillard, Sherman, Texas.) 
On my return from' Galveston I found on 
my desk your favor of the 21st inst. I regret 
that it did not reach me sutBciently early to 
present at the late meeting of our Bar As- 
sociation which closed its session for this 
year yesterday afternoon. With the close of 
this session my term of office as President 
has expired. Hon. Presley K. Ewing, of 
Houston, has been elected to the presidency 
for the ensuing year, and I forward him your 
letter and proposition. 

The movement you inaugurate has my 
hearty sympathy, and I trust will prove a 



great success. In these days when it has 
become too common in many quarters to- 
find fault with the Supreme Couit, even by 
lawyers of standing and ability, and When 
we are too frequently led away from con- 
servative views by the passion of the hour, 
anything which can recall us to the great 
work done by that body, and especially to 
the principles underlying and sustaining the 
constitution so clearly and forcibly enunci- 
ated by Chief Justice Marshall should be en- 
couraged by all lawyers who love their 
country and institutions, F. C. DILLARD. 



(From Chas. E. Gast, Pueblo, Colorado.) 
I think the entire legal profession is in- 
debted to you and the Illinois State Bar As- 
sociation for the initiative in proposing and 
formulating a plan for commemorating the 
judicial career of Chief Justice Marshall. 1 
especially approve the suggestion that Feb- 
ruary 4, 1901, the centennial anniversary of 
his elevation to the Supreme Court bench, 
should be fittingly observed in all the Pub- 
lie Schools throughout the country by exer- 
cises appropriate to the occasion and calcu- 
lated to make his name as familiar to all 
school children as that of Washington, Lin- 
coln and Grant. As a constructive jurist in 
the field of constitutional law, his services 
to the Republic were quite as valuable as 
those of any other distinguished American, 
and I know of no reason why the American 
people should not honor their great judges 
in the same universal sense that they honor 
their great presidents and generals. 

If the plan proposed is carried out on 
broad lines, as it should be, February 4, 
1901, will be historical. CHAS. E. GAST. 



(From P. W. Meldrim. Savannah. Ga. ) 
Your circular, in the matter of "John Mar- 
shall Day." received. I have only to say. 
that as at present advised, the suggestion 
meets my fullest approval. While the cele- 
bration of the day would be proper as a tri- 
bute to the memory of Marshall, yet the 
greater benefit will come from impressing 
upon the public mind and heart the lessons 
of government, which I sometimes fear our 
people are forgetting. P. W. MELDRIM. 



(From Henry H. Ingersoll, Knoxville, 
Tenn.) 

In response to your July communication 
on John Marshall Day, it gives me pleasure 
to express my approval of the idea and of 
the general plan of celebration, and I hope 
that the meeting may be held and may be 
worthy of the great Chief Justice and above 
all that it may result in impressing the 
present generation of Americans with the 
supreme importance of that for which John 



'JOHN MAESHALL DAY." 



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Marshall stood — the Dignity, the Majesty 
and the Sovereignty of the law. 

HENRY H. INGERSOLL. 



(F'rom James H. Hayden, Washington, 
D. C.) 

In reply to your communication of July, 
1899, with regard to the celebration of John 
Marshall Day, I beg to say: The proposition 
is a most admirable one. and I am sure that 
it will receive the cordial approval of the 
American Bar Association. You may de- 
pend upon it that all Washington lawyers 
will do their utmost to make the occasion 
one which will do full justice to Marshall's 
memory and which will reflect credit upon 
the American bar. 

JAMES H. HAYDEN. 



(From C. A. Dudley, Des Moines. Iowa.) 
Your circular relative to the "John Mar- 
shall Day" is received. Your proposition is 
a very timely one, and if the day can be 
observed as you suggest, it will do much to 
reawaken an interest in constitutional gov- 
ernment and also to establish it in the con- 
fidence of the people at large. It one-half 
of the results hoped tor can be secured by 
the observation of the day as you suggest, 
it will do much to disprove the many and 
frequent charges made by a certain class of 
speakers to the effect that Republican and 
constitutional government is a failure. It 
is my present intention to attend the meet- 
ing of the American Bar Association, and I 
shall take pleasure in advancing the pro- 
position you suggest to the extent of my 
ability. C. A. DUDLEY. 



(From Lynde Harrison, New Haven, Conn.) 
I certainly approve your proposed celebra- 
tion of John Marshall Day on the 4th of 
February, 1901. 

I think the members of the Bar of Connec- 
ticut will endorse the action of the Bar As- 
sociation of your State; and I think that 
many of our profession in this State will 
be glad to attend a general celebration of 
the day. Doubtless some appropriate action 
will be taken within the borders of Connec- 
ticut at that time if Congress and the Su- 
preme Court of the United States shall de- 
termine that the day shall be appropriately 
celebrated. There is no man who has ever 
lived in our country since the adoption of 
the Federal Constitution who has had so 
much to do with making that Constitution 
in its construction, the admirable instru- 
ment of our government that it is. as John 
Marshall. LYNDE HARRISON. 



(From Wni. A. Meloy. Washington.) 
Since "John Marshall Day," which you 
propose shall be celebrated with all due hon- 
ors, there has not arisen a judge upon the 
American Bench to surpass, if even to equal 
the great Chief Justice for the legal, mental 
and moral qualities which shone so resiplen- 
dent in him, and which are the sine qua non 
of the perfect judge. 

The quick and powei'ful grasp, and the 
logical clearness of his mind were equalled 
by the plain simplicity of the man and the 
unvarying sweet courtesy and kindness of 
the Christian gentleman without large meas- 
ure of which no man is truly qualified to 
be a judge. Next to the worth of those who 
wrote our Declaration of Independence and 
our Con.stitution, is that of him who by his 
wise judicial opinions and interpretations 
gave that instrument its fullness and power, 
its breadth and flexibility — breathed into it 
the breath of life so that it became a living 
soul to guide and develop as well as restrain 
this great nation. What would have been 
the fate of the great Republic had some nar- 
row minded legal martinet sat in Marshall'.s 
seat during the flr.st quarter of the century? 
All honor then to the great Chief Justice. 
To study and to proclaim his characteristic 
traits, virtues and services cannot fail to 
awaken and strengthen every patriotic virtue 
among our people and I shall be most happy 
to support your proposition in the next ses- 
sion of the American Bar Association. 

WM. A. MELOY. 



(From T. J. Johnston, New York City.) 
Your memoranda concerning Marshall 
Day came to-day while I was engaged in 
examining the decision in McCuUoch v. 
State of Maryland. Under these circum- 
stances I could hardly refuse to add my 
word of commendation to a proposal to 
commemorate the great Chief Justice in the 
way you suggest. 

I can imagine no man's work which it is 
more important to study at the present 
time, when many of our Courts, including 
Courts of the United States, have in the 
judgment of some of us, departed so far 
from the spirit and the law of the document 
which John Marshall assisted so much in 
construing and establishing. Certainly the 
proposition is most meritorious and I will 
be glad indeed to see it fully carried out. 
T. J. JOHNSTON. 



(From W. P. Hubbard. Wheeling, W. Va. ) 
The suggestion made by you and adopted 
by the Illinois State Bar Association that 
the centenary of Marshall's taking his seat 
as Chief Justice be celebrated throughout 
the country on February 4, 1901, as "John 
Marshall Day," meets my hearty approval. 



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•JOHN MARSHALL DAY." 



and I am sure will commend itself to the bar 
and people ot this State. No doubt the Am- 
erican Bar Association at its meeting in 
Buffalo in August will take the proper steps 
to carry the project to a successful termina- 
tion. There will be no opportunity to bring 
the matter to the attention of our State or 
County Bar Association before the meeting 
of the American Bar Association. Our State 
Association usually meets in the winter, and 
no doubt will, at Its next session, second in 
every possible way such action as may be 
taken by the American Association. 

W. P. HUBBARD. 



(Prom Robt. R. Baldwin, Chicago.) 

I favor your proposition. 

It is not the least of our debt to Washing- 
ton that he guided the deliberations of the 
convention that framed our charter of liber- 
ty, but the work of this high minded body 
of men would have been as children's names 
written in the sand, but for the calm de- 
liberations, marvelous insight and patriotic 
devotion of those jurists who have re- 
written it on the hearts of their country- 
m.?n. Any date which seems to mark the 
l)eginning of their labors is worthy of cele- 
bration and to cluster the glory of it around 
the head of John Marshall is only just rec- 
ognition of the pre-eminent character of his 
work and does not detract from the honor 
due to the less conspicuous labors of others. 
In honoring him, all are honored. Let us 
.show that republics are not ungrateful. Let 
us inculcate in the minds of the young ap- 
preciation of the triumphs of peace. 

ROBT. R. BALDWIN. 



(From W. H. Bryant, Denver, Colo.) 
I have received your communications con- 
cerning the celebration of "John Marshall 
Day" February 4th. 1901. 

I have always maintained that we had 
three men who were more responsible for 
the American government as it exists to- 
day than all the rest of the statesmen the 
Revolution produced. These three men were 
Washington, Marshall and Hamilton. It has 
sometimes been a difficult thing for me to 
decide to whom the greatest praise of these 
three should be given. Feeling that way 
of course I can only say that I will cheer- 
fully join and give my approval to any cele- 
liration which tends to perpetuate the mem- 
ory and recall the deeds of any of these 
three men. I think it particularly appro- 
priate that the lawyers of the country 
should pay whatever tribute can be paid to 
the memory of John Marshall, and you can 
count upon my assistance and have my ap- 
proval of any celebration that may be 
agreed upon. W. H. BRYANT. 



(From John F. Burke, Milwaukee.) 
Your proposition regarding "John Mar- 
shall Day" meets my most hearty approval. 
I will gladly do all that I can to advance 
and encourage it. 

The highest service a lawyer can render 
the State is to do his best to upbuild and 
uphold its jurisprudence and judiciary and 
the faith and the hope of the people therein. 
In no manner can this be better accomplish- 
ed than by teaching them the priceless ser- 
vices rendered civilization by John Mar- 
shall, the greatest jurist the Anglo-Saxon 
race has produced, at least in this country, 
if not in the world. JOHN F. BURKE. 



(From William P. Breen, Fort Wayne, Ind.) 
I have your circular, containing a propo- 
sition for the celebration of "John Mar- 
shall Day" on Feb. 4, 1901. 

I am in hearty accord with this proposi- 
tion. 

We are becoming indifferent to the mem- 
ories of the great men who builded our 
government and its institutions. Such a tri- 
bute to John Marshall, the great interpreter 
of the Federal constitution, would be emi- 
nently fitting, and would stem the tide of 
indifference. Thoughtful citizens, and above 
all, the lawyers of the land, would rejoice 
in honoring the genius and work of Mar- 
shall. WILLIAM P. BREEN. 



(From H. P. Judson, Dean of University of 
Chicago.) 
I am in receipt of your communication 
with enclosure with regard to John Marshall 
Day. The suggestion strikes me as a very 
excetllent one, and I hope it will be carried 
out. You can certainly count on the Uni- 
versity to cooperate in the undertaking of 
the Bar Association. H. P. JUDSON. 

* * * 

(From Prof. Herman von Hoist, Chicago 
University.) 

Cottage Belleniary, 
Upper Nashota Lake, Wis. 
Many and great are the services rendered 
by John Adams to his country. If I were 
to be asked which of them I consider the 
greatest and most far-reaching, I should an- 
swer, without a moment's hesitation, the 
nomination of John Marshall to be Chief 
Justice of the United States Supreme Court. 
This opinion is not likely to be endorsed 
by the vox populi, if vox populi be under- 
stood to mean the masses. The part played 
by Marshall in the evolutionary history of 
the United States appeals but very little to 
the popular imagination, and to form any- 
thing like an adequate conception of it pre- 
supposes an amount of legal, historical and 



•'JOHN MARSHALL DAY." 



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political erudition whicii, in the nature of 
things, the masses cannot possess. From 
this, however, no inference is to be drawn 
as to the necessity of opening also the eyes 
of the masses to the character and import 
of this part; they stand in an inverse ratio. 
For the future of the Republic is secured 
against peradventure only il', not merely 
the bench and the bar, but also the whole 
people are thoroughly imbued with the prin- 
ciples forming the bed rock on which John 
Maishalls judicial opinions on constitution- 
al questions are reared with unerring logic 
and true constructive statesmanship — as in- 
stinct with sound adaptation to the ever de- 
veloping needs evolved by the irresistible 
rapid progress of the Commonwealth on all 
lines of civilization, as it is implacably con- 
servative in regard to the basic ideas of 
right, law and policy, on which its foundeis 
chose to put it. 

14olding these views it goes without say- 
ing that I hope and trust the American Bar 
Association will at its ne.xt session in Buf- 
falo, N. Y., follow the example set by the 
Illinois State Bar Association, i. e., unan- 
imously adopt your proposition in regard to 
-.John Marshal"! Dav" February 4th, 1901. 
H. E. von HOLST. 



(From Edward J. James. Chicago.) 

I see from the papers that you are inter- 
ested in the celebration of the anniveisary of 
Marshall's taking his seat as Chief Justice 
of the United States Supreme Couit. I thmk 
you deserve the thanks of all persons inter- 
ested in our legal, constitutional and politi- 
cal history. In my worK as professor of Po- 
litical Science in the University of Pennsyl- 
vania and in the University of Chicago I 
have been impressed in an ever stronger way 
with the significance of Marshall, not merely 
for the development of our own political and 
constitutional law, but for the development 
of public law in general in all countries. I 
desire to be counted among the friends of 
this movement which you have started. I 
think that the leading jurists and pul)licists 
of the Continent as well as of England, will 
be interested in this event. 

I expect to spend the greater part of next 
year in Europe on a leave of absence from 
the University, and I shall take great pleas- 
ure in being of any service I can in interest- 
ing English or Continental men in this cele- 
bration. 

Kindly command my services in any way 
in which they may be of use for this pur- 
pose. EDWARD J. JAMES, 

Professor of Public Administration in the 
University of Chicago. 



(From B. C. Ravenscroft, Dean of Nashville 
College of Law.) 
I desire on behalf of the Nashville College 



of Law to express our hearty appreciation of 
your proposition for a "John Marshall Day." 
A celebration of this order would do far 
more toward pointing out the great benefit to 
be derived from a pure and incorruptible 
judiciary as exemplified in Chief Justice 
Marshall than all editorials that could be 
w-ritten against corruption on the bench. 
The opportunities for good to be derived 
from a "John Marshall Day" are boundless. 
We hope you may meet with success in se- 
curing the approval of the American Bar As- 
sociation. E. C. RAVENSCROFT. 



(From H. N. Ogden. Pres. of Illinois College 
of Law.) 

I have read your proposal for the setting 
apart of February 4th, 1901, as "John Mar- 
shall Day." to commemorate the One Hun- 
dredth anniversary of the accession to the 
Bench, of America's most illustrious judge 
and I have brought the same to the attention 
of the members of our faculty. We desire 
to endorse your proposal and to assure 
you that the day will be set apart and fit- 
tingly observed by the faculty and students 
of this college. 

Permit us to express the hope that the Law 
Colleges throughout the country may also 
appropriately observe the day and that 
thereby the true foundations of the rights 
and liberties of the American citizen may be 
revealed to the rising generation of lawyers 
and judges, and through them to the whole 
body of the American people. 

The celebration of this centennial will he 
a unique and most impoitant event in the 
judicial history of the country. 

Thanking vou for the courtesy, etc.. I re- 
main, " HOWARD N. OGDEN, 

President. 



(From B. J. Ramage, Dean of Law Depart- 
ment. The University of the South, Se- 

wame, Tennessee.) 
The proposed celebration of "John Mar- 
shall Day" meets with my heartiest ap- 
proval. That the event may arouse a keen- 
er appreciation of the services rendered the 
nation by the interpreter of the constitution 
during its formative period, will surely be 
the earnest wish of all who love the work 
of the fatliers. B. J. RAMAGE. 



(From H. B. Hutchins, Dean of University 
of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor.) 
I certainly favor the proposition for the 
celebration of "John Marshall Day." The 
action of the Illinois State Bar Association 
is to be commended, and I trust that it w'ill 
be approved by the American Bar Associa- 
tion. H. B. HUTCHINS. 



L.«rc. 



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•'JOHM MARSHALL DAY." 



(From George W. Warvelle, Dean of the 
Chicago Law School, Chicago.) 
I am in receipt of your esteemed communi- 
cation relative to the popular observance of 
"John Marshall Day, " and in reply would 
say: the suggestion is an excellent one and 
is fully approved by the faculty of the Chi- 
cago Law School. I beg to assure you that 
the day will be duly observed by us with 
special commemorative exercises, including 
an address on the life and character of the 
distinguished jurist whose name we all hold 
in such veneration. 

GEO. W. WARVELLE, Dean. 



(Resolution adopted by the Bar Association 
of San Francisco, Cal.) 

Resolved, as the sense of this association, 
that the project proposing to celebrate the 
100th anniversary of the elevation of Chief 
Justice John Marshall to the Bench of the 
United States Supreme Court, formulated 
and submitted by Mr. Adolph Moses, and 
adopted by the Illinois State Bar Associa- 
tion on July 7th, 1899, be and is hereby en- 
dorsed and approved. 

Re.^olved, that a copy of the above resolu- 
tion be sent to Adolph Moses, Esq., Ii00-B12 
The Temple, Chicago, III., by the President 
of this association. 

I certify that the foregoing resolution was 
adopted at a stated meeting of the Bar A.s- 
sociation of San Francisco, held on August 
11th, 1899. WM. H. FIFIELD, 

President. 



(From Frederic S. Hebard, Chicago, ad- 
dressed to Sec'y Hinkley.) 
The Illinois State Bar Association has 
very appropriately endorsed Mr. Moses' sug- 
gestion that "John Marshall Day" be ob- 
served. The day should be one of fervent, 
dignified and equitable patriotism. 

FREDERIC S. HEBARD. 



(From John L. Bridgers. Tarboro, N. C.) 
Your letter of the 24th inst. with enclosed 
paper about the "John Marshall Day" re- 
ceived. 

I shall be glad to assist in the matter all 
I can. JOHN L. BRIDGERS. 

* * * 

(From James A. Rohbach, Sec'y of Indiana 
Law School.) 

Indianapolis, Ind. 
I assure you that the Indiana Law School 
most heartily approves of the proposed 
"John Marshall Day," and wishes the enter- 
prise the reception and success it deserves. 
I individually add my hearty endorsement, 
and at first meeting of the Faculty of this 
school will present the plan to that body, 
and I know that they will concur in the mat- 
ter. JAMES A. ROHBACH. 



(Commercial Law League of America En- 
dorsement.) 

The following resolution was unanimously 
adopted by the Commercial Law League of 
America, at its 5th Annual Convention, at 
Ashury Park, N. J... July 24-29, 1899; 

Whereas, the Illinois State Bar Associa- 
tion, at its late meeting held at Chicago, 
endorsed the proposition of Mr. Adolph 
Mosos, of the Chicago Bar, to celebrate Feb- 
ruary 4, 1901, as "John Marshall Day," in 
memory of the great event when Chief Jus- 
tice Marshall first took his seat as Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United 
States; and 

Whereas, The Commercial Law League of 
America has been invited to lend its indorse- 
ment to the project. 

Be it Resolved, By the Commercial Law 
League of America, that it heartily endorses 
such a proposition, and that it will co-oper- 
ate in such celebration, if the same be au- 
thorized by the American Bar Association, 
to whom the matter has been referred, at its 
session to be held August 28, 29 and 30, 1899, 
at Buffalo, N. Y. 



(Resolution of the Virginia State Bar Asso- 
ciation, adopted at its late meeting 
at Hot Springs, Va.) 

Resolved, That the Virginia State Bar As- 
sociation regards with sentiments of warm- 
est approval the movement recently inaugu- 
rated by the Illinois State Bar Association, 
upon the motion of the Hon. Adolph Moses, 
of the Chicago Bar, to celebrate in an appro- 
priate manner the coming centennial anni- 
versary of the elevation of John Marshall to 
the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the United States. His exalted 
character as a man, his pre-eminence as a 
jurist, and his illustrious services in the 
making of the Union, entitle him to the 
lasting veneration and affection of all his 
countrymen. The lawyers of Virginia with 
peculiar pride will cordially unite in any 
movement to commemorate his labors and to 
e.xalt his fame. 

Resolved, further. That a committee of 
five be appointed by the president to com- 
municate to the American Bar Association 
at its approaching meeting the passage of 
the foregoing resolution, and to correspond 
with other bar associations and the bar gen- 
erally, looking to the accomplishment of the 
end in view, making a report of their ac- 
tion at the next session of this association, 

(Under the above resolution the president 
appointed the following committee; Messrs. 
Bev. B. Munford, L. L, Lewis. John A. Coke, 
Jackson Guy and James P. Harrison.) 



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